Removing .AppleDouble folders

I go back and forth between an OSX MacBook and a Vista desktop. Whenever I use the notebook, especially when working off of a network drive, there winds up being a mess of files like .AppleDouble and .ds_store. I know they're deletable, but is there an easy way to keep them from being created? Right now I'm working on a project that will span into potentially hundreds of folders and I really don't want to have to go through and delete all of these folders once I'm ready to package it up.

It's something about meta data that the mac can store on natively formatted disks that it's not able to store on non-native disks. They all start with . which hides them from the Unix-y OSX, but they'll still show up in Windows. They seem to show up in a folder whenever I browse to that folder in Finder or open a file within that directory.

I guess it's probably easy enough to cook up a script that goes through and deletes all of the stray folders, but I'd rather not have to bother if I can find a setting somewhere that'll turn it off.