The good news for 10.5 users is that Fuse, NTFS-3G, and the MacFusion GUI work fine and seem very stable now. Besides NTFS access, Fuse can mount FTP servers and all kinds of other things, too.
I transferred lots of data to and from an NTFS disk that a friend hooked up to my MacBook Pro, and uploaded some things to my FTP server. This setup is golden!
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