Can BootCamp beta be installed on Tiger by setting the clock back?

Hello
I have a MacBook, it is about one year old. I have been running BootCamp on with with XP Pro/SP2 since the day I got it, and it has always worked fine.
Now, however, for a few reasons, I want to wipe my hard drive clean completely - set the partitions back to being one partition, format everything, install Tiger, install BootCamp, install XP, etc.
I am concerned about BootCamp though, as the beta has expired and I don't intend on getting Leopard anytime soon.
If I try to open the BootCamp assistant, it obviously says that it's expired. I've often heard that you can get around it by setting the system clock back to 2007. I did so, and I got the following common error message:
"The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partion..."
I've read that this usually means that there's something wrong with the way your partitions are set up...but I have only two partitions, the OSX partition and the XP partition as the BootCamp Assistant itself set up a year ago. I've never had any trouble booting into Windows, and I've never had any problem with BootCamp before this. I don't know what could be causing this, but I'm thinking if I'm going to wipe the entire hard drive clean, I might as well just use disk utility to delete the XP partition and go from there.
But I don't want to wipe my hard drive if I can't use BootCamp again afterwards, so my real question is this: If I wipe my hard drive completely, install OSX, and then
1.Set the system clock back to 2007
2.Install BootCamp Beta
3.Run BootCamp Assistant to make the partitions, install XP
4.After XP Installation, set the OSX clock back to its appropriate time
WILL THAT WORK?
I need a definitive answer to this, and it's no, is there any other way I can accomplish what I'm trying to do?

Yes that should work, I have tried a similar thing in the past.
See also http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1309
"Boot Camp Beta: Removing a Windows partition after Boot Camp Beta has expired in Mac OS X 10.4"

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