Boot Camp on MBPro/w Tiger - want to upgrade to Leopard & keep Pc Partition

I've got a MacBook Pro running Tiger with the original Boot Camp Beta PC Partition that I want to upgrade to Leopard, but I don't want to have to re-install everything into the PC partition. I want to be able to take advantage of the newer features of the latest Boot Camp. Is this possible?

Just upgrade your OS X, then do [this|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/15553.html].

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