WD Elements External drive file transfer issue.

I have just purchased a 1.5Tb USB 2.0 WD Elements external hard drive for backing up data. I have partitioned it, using Disk Utility in to a 1Tb Fat32 and 500Mb OS Journaled (Extended) pair of partitions. The OS Journaled (Extended) partition will replace a smaller Maxtor drive as my Time Machine Backup drive.
The problem: When I attempt to copy/move a file from either the Mac HD or my current backup drive, a 750Gb Maxtor, I get the message "*The operation can't be completed because an item with the name "file/folder name" already exists*." On the Windows XP Boot Camp partition file transfer is not a problem
WD have not been of much assistance and I am hoping someone can remedy this problem for me.

and btw, since I have the exact same My Book Essential USB 2.0 1.5 terabyte drive the poster has, I retrieved the Box it came in (Green) and It says plainly on the box. "Compatibility - Formatted NTFS for Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7.
Requires reformatting for Mac OS X Tiger, or Leopard".
OP states he formatted a 1 terabyte partition FAT32. Do any of you actually understand the size restrictions of FAT32? I didn't think so.
I have no problem with this or any other drive since I format every drive I buy for the purpose that I had in mind.
The decision is size/interface/price. Any WD will do, since usb2 at 480 mbits/sec is faster than firewire 400 and out of my 4 macs only usb2 is common across them all, it's a no brainer. Yeah, firewire 800 is faster but only half my macs support it.
So it goes to sleep after 10 minutes of inactivity? TM only updates once per hour. In loose terms it sleeps 50 minutes of every hour when it's not needed. So What.
So in a day's time, that's 1,200 minutes that it doesn't spin...that sounds like a feature to me.
How many new, inexperienced users have you people talked into taking perfectly good drives back to the store? I see it post after post and quite frankly, you don't know what you're talking about.
Full disclosure. I don't work for, or have ever been paid anything from WD. I don't have stock in WD (although I've thought about it). I don't have any other ID's on this board so I don't "game it" like other users.

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