Vista Tutorial - Vista strips info from pictures and corrupts files!!

What is Microsoft going to do about the way that Windows Vista (probably
something to do with Permissions) strips markers from jpgs thus making them
unrreadable when moving files to and from certain USB connected hardware?

Is there a solution to the following two problems?

1. I have a vista laptop networked to a XP desktop with a crossover cable
(ie not wireless). XP connected to broadband modem. I have an external HD
connected to the desktop that is having data on it corrupted when I try to
transfer from the laptop to the LACIE external drive on the desktop via the
network.

Two or three times I have downloaded photos from my Olympus camera to the
external HD connected to the desktop via the laptop and network, and it has
copied some of the files, then given me a message saying there was an
unexpected error and the process cannot continue due to "insufficient quota"
(even though I have quotas disabled). Then the files it has copied onto the
HD become corrupted. It has somehow changed the Jpeg markers in the files so
that nothing will read them anymore. This is incredibly annoying and
frustrating. WHY DOESN'T WINDOWS NETWORKING FILE HANDLING EVER WORK
PROPERLY????

2. Another similar problem has just surfaced today. I imported some pictures
from my camera using the Windows Photo Gallery adding a tag to them as
they're downloaded. It appears to have written the tag over the Olympus
markers that indicate the files are part of a panorama, so that Olympus
Camedia cannot stitch them together now. That's real clever.

If I import them using windows folders, it doesn't do this.

I'd advise anyone with an Olympus camera not to use Windows Photo Gallery to
import photos, and not to delete files from your camera until you're sure
stupid Vista has copied them in one piece!