USB Flash Drive Purchasing Advice

[Bob Gorman]

Any advice on purchasing a USB Flash Drive for use with Linux?

Brands to avoid, or migrate towards?  Any general advise on compatibility, dependability or longevity?

My primary plan is to use this with different flavors of bootable Linux CDs.  I will initially be working with Knoppix but intend to work with some others (SUSE, Mandrake, whatever strikes-my-fancy :)

I will occasionally stick it into a W2K machine to grab some files.

TIA!