Has Anyone Installed Bootcamp (and XP) on an External Drive?

I'm thinking of installing Bootcamp and XP on a Maxtor external hard drive to play games because I don't want to take up valuable internal drive space. I have a 120 gig hard drive on my MBP and I need as much space as I can get.
How would this work for games? My internal drive is 5400 rpm and the Maxtor external is 7200 rpm (Firewire 800).
Thanks!
Ashley
MacPro 2.66, Macbook Pro, Macbook, PowerMac G5 Dual Core   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

It looks like people have gotten XP on an external USB drive to boot:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=191777
Summary:
o Hack the Windows install CD. The problem is that the USB drivers are loaded / unloaded during bootup, so that messes the bootup itself. The hack gets rid of this.
o Same hack cannot as yet be transplanted onto firewall, because somehow that's different.
I think it's not a clean solution because it looks like the process involves removing the internal drive, and also there's no pagefile (i.e. virtual memory) since WinXP doesn't allow that on external drives.

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