You used Boot Camp Assistant?
Which format did you use for Windows? (oh I just checked, VISTA cannot use FAT)
From what I recall reading in Boot's instructions, or was it what apple support told me, FAT is best for sharing files with OSX. Not so sure OSX can read the other NTFS format.

I found the following in the Boot Camp instructions, I pasted the part about Vista from a following page:

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