[FallFromINFINITY]

I connected my external FAT32 40GB HDD to the computer just today for the first time in about a week. I had to put it back into the external mount. The drive has been in an anti-static bag for the week it was out and the external mount has been empty, but closed, in a safe place.
When I tried to save data to it, it started telling me that the filename was too long.

It has more than enough space left on it and the total length of the filename/path is far less than 255. The path would be:

F:\pics\Translated Manga sets\Rurouni Kenshin\PDF\V01.pdf

Total of 46 characters, not including volume label or extension. It's trying to cut it down to 20 charachers. Butn 46 is still far too few to hit any limits, because there are files on the drive, that I know, have total path lengths of over 150.

I use lots of folders because I'm far too organized....

I'm currently running
chkdsk F: /R
to see if it's an error in the file tables. It's going extremely slowly in stage 4 of 5, and so far it's found nothing. Disk manager also states: Healthy Volume.

Win XP Pro SP2
Masscool external ATA HDD mount model:UBH-330u
IBM Deskstar 40GB ATA HDD

Thanks.
~FallFromINFINITY

EDIT: I just noticed, the HDD is not showing up in My Computer. Whether this helps or not, I thought it may be useful.

Thanks again.