rsync has problems

I've given up using rsync on the Mac. Maybe it's not on my end, but I'm getting all sorts of mystery files with "dirattr" in their name showing up when I upload files from the local development machine to the hosting server. And mysterious messages of "fopen: No such file or directory", and attempts to upload "rsrc" directories that don't exist. A Google search doesn't turn up much help, though others are having that problem as well.