Had exactly the same problem with a customer a few moons ago. Solution was to use an Ext2 (Linux) filesystem.
On the Muckintosh (presume you're using tigger or similar), use.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...ease_id=257437
On Windoze, use
http://www.fs-driver.org/
And of course your get out of jail free CD is
www.knoppix.org
I'm not a linux hippy but don't mind using it when necessary.
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