dot files and removable media with Windows machines

[VaShaun Jones]

Listers I use removable media such as thumb drives and SD cards. I  
find that if I start with my Mac and put stuff on it to move over to a  
Windows machine, I find dot files like .trashes. I would not be  
annoyed if they didn't eat up most of my space on the drive. How do I  
stop these files from showing up? I was told that they were hidden  
files for faster Mac indexing, but what I need to pull off of 4GB of  
space doesn't need to be accessed that fast to justify the annoyance.  
Thanks for anyone's help on this irritating matter.