ext3 filesystem on my sdhc card????

I’ve found Ubuntu to be an awesome distro and this is a headless server with RAID and all my data on it so scrapping it for a new distro is out of the question. But when I used rsync to copy my tunes, “NOFX” became “nofx”, an album named “80-85” became “8085” and so forth. I contend this is a FAT32 issue and have the means to test it on an external USB drive formatted ext3.