Black Screen trying to run Boot Camp (XP) with 10.6.8 on a macbook pro

running 10.6.8 on a 3 year old macbook pro. boot camp with xp used to work no problem. i played and beat fallout 3 on it. now it gives me a black screen when i boot up. no sound. no flashing cursor. i ran parallels today and it accessed my drive and everything is there. but when i try to boot into boot camp it fails. anyone have any ideas? ive seen all of the advice for people on imacs or running windows 7, etc.
super bummed. want to play skyrim.
thank you!
damian

something similar has been happening to me for a a couple weeks (even before the most recent update, but now is definitely worse) on my 2010 MacBook Air. Firefox freezes upon startup, and then freezes maybe every twenty minutes or so when I'm actively using it, staying frozen for at least a minute or two. it drives me crazy.

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