Booting Windows Install DVD

I had always split my iMac in to two partitions. One for OSX, one for Windows via Boot Camp and then used that sometimes via Boot Camp and others via VM Ware Fusion. Recently whenever I tried to boot to Windows the computer would hang, and I've have to reset and instead load OSX. All the while I was able to load the Boot Camp partition through VM Ware Fusion.
Having played around a bit I couldn't find an easy solution so I decided to just reformat the HDD as I'd been intending to increase the Windows partition size for a while anyway. So I backed up my OSX install with Super Duper, reformatted, and was able to restore the clone of my HDD to it's new smaller partition easily.
I've been able to load Boot Camp Assistant and have partitioned the drive to my liking and have got to the stage where I insert my Windows Install DVD, which it seems to recognise, the computer restarts and ... nothing.
I've tried;
- * Setting the DVD Drive as the Startup Disk
- * Holding down alt/option at boot and selecting the DVD
- * Plugging in an external and booting from that
- * 4 different versions of Windows DVDs (it should be noted that I can install all of these versions of Windows using VM Ware)
- * Burning my Windows DVD in Disk Utility rather than Toast (not that this is the issue anyway, as the boot loader does recognise a bootable DVD named 'Windows' it just hangs after I select it)
- * Installing rEFIt
- * Repairing the HDD using Disk Utility on the Leopard Install DVD
It's tempting to say the problem must be with my computer not being able to boot from DVDs, but it can boot the Leopard Install DVD.
Any ideas?

In my initial post I had tried 2 versions of Windows XP including one with SP3 integrated, Windows Vista Ultimate, and Windows Server 2008.
I settled on installing Windows XP with SP3 and that is the one that currently won't boot. As with the first time I had a problem however, I can still load up the boot camp partition in VMWare.
Another thing that might be worth mentioning is that usually if I select to boot 'OSX' I can hear fans start spinning etc. but the reverse is true when I select 'Windows' and it hangs - the computer noticeably quietens almost immediately.

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