Which format for External HD using Mac OSX Windows Xp, and Vista?

Hi
I've had problems with using an extermal HD and am looking for some further information...
I have recently purchased a 500 g external iomega hard drive. I need it to be compatible with my mac using osx, and with pc's using both Windows XP and vista. I will routinely be needing to transfer files from all three platforms.
I had reformatted my hard drive to FAT32 on the pc using windows xp and it worked fine, then took it home and used in on my mac, and it is now no longer recognized on the pc.
The HD is under disk manager is showing that it is formatted as FAT32 but I cannot use the drive. I cannot download programs to use on the PC's to make the drive compatible but could on the mac.
What are my best options to share files reliably?
Thanks

Add NTFS write support to Mac OS instead.
MacFUSE +3G is a good start.

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