Can I bootcamp snow leopard after installing Lion

So I got a macbook pro 13 inch. in July (it came with Snowleopard) so I bought lion and installed it. My question is whether I can use the snowleopard disk that came with my mac and make a bootcamp with it. Because I downloaded a few games that are not compatible with lion (powerpc) so I was wondering whether that disk that came with my mac was a recovery disk or if i can use it and make a bootcamp without losing everything

While the subject is open, please verify/deny ...
BootCamp requires a 1-partition internal disk to make the partition.  If one creates a second partition for SL, then BootCamp for Windows will not work.
I would like to know for myself at least.

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