Boot Camp XP Installation **** -- Any Useful Comments Appreciated

I've spent *three days* trying to get an NTFS install of XP SP2 on to my Mac Pro.
I'm going to pains-takingly list what I've done, in the hope that someone might see where I'm going wrong.
First off, I did not use Boot Camp to partition the disk (sse below).
The basic problem is that when I use Boot Camp to partition the disk, after copying the files, the options for reformatting the BOOTCAMP partition as NTFS / FAT32 / Leave Intact are never presented.
The install just goes straight to copying files (to the un-bootable FAT32 partition created by Boot Camp). Result? "Disk Error" on re-boot after copying files.
So far, the only way I've got around this is by using Lily Bolero's suggestion in *this thread*
This worked for me, but you'll only get a max. 32 GB FAT32 partition, no NTFS.
The obvious route for me to take would be to pre-format the partitions as NTFS bootable before installing XP.
So, I got a copy of *Paramount NTFS 6.5*. This allows the formatting of NTFS disks from within Disk Utility and read-write from MacOS X. It's a lot of money for a little utility, but I'm at the end of my tether (The free MacFUSE / NTFS-3g combo. didn't work for me).
Using Disk Utility.app, I created a 64GB NTFS partition on one of my 320GB disks and Set it to Master Boot Record (Windows bootable). The rest I left as HFS+.
Win XP installation proceeds fine, I see my 64GB NTFS partition, I select it, then this odd message occurs:
+"Windows needs to copy some set-up files to the disk at disk0 9555600MB, but this disk does not contain any partitions that Windows can recognize. Please create a partition..."+ (or somesuch).
That's my OS X documents disk, 1 partition HFS+ formatted, in Bay 1. So, I decide to comply, and make a small NTFS (MBR) partition on that disk. Reinstall windows, select my 64GB NTFS (MBR) partition. Files are copied...progress as normal...Windows is restarting...
"Disk Error. Press any key to restart..." But I've made the partition bootable!
I've had a look at the small partition that I created on disk0, and it contains four files: boot.ini, bootsect.dos, NTDETECT.COM and ntdlr.
Something tells me that boot.ini should be on the same disk as my Windows install... why would the installer create another partition, on another disk?
Any pointers gratefully received...

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it gets worse.
I've realized that Windows expects to be installed on HD 0 (the master drive), hence the odd error message about needing to write files...
However, I tried this -- first by creating an NTFS partition on drive 0 -- installation went as planned, but when it restarted I got the 'Press any key to boot from the CD....' and it just hung there. It didn't go on to start up from the Windows installation.
However, I did now have a Windows partition with all the installed files on it... so I set that to be the startup drive. All it produced was a blinking white cursor.
So, I tried partitioning with Boot Camp, (In case those odd 200MB & 128MB partitions that it creates were doing some magic) and then set the partition created by Boot Camp to be NTFS.
Exactly the same result.

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