Boot camp FAT or NTFS

When installing boot camp, which one should I use, FAT or NTFS? I am planning to give windows xp 25Gb of space. Isn't there an advantage to one of them?

thanks for the reply. Now I have installed boot camp
and everything seems to be working fine. The only
thing I've noticed so far is that the volume controls
(F3, F4, F5)don't seems to work and there is no
right-click functionality. I can deal without the
volume control but it seems like it would be pretty
hard to use the xp partition without the ability to
right-click. Does anyone know how to add a
right-click functionality or did I not do something
right?
Try out the app below. It will remap the keyboard so you can control the backlight, volume, add a delete key, etc. Very handy program.
http://www.olofsson.info/

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