Can I install Lion on a fresh partition, and keep SL as is?

Hi-
I have multiple programs that I need to keep Snow Leopard for, and I have other things that are really pushing me to Lion. Here is what I'm thinking of doing-
Add a partition to my internal drive (I have a Macbook Pro) called "Lion". This will be 100 Gigs.
Make a bootable DVD of the Lion Installer.
Install Lion onto the new "Lion" partition.
Will I be able to boot either Snow Leopard or Lion, depending what I have need for?
Will this affect my Bootcamp install of Windows XP?
Will this affect my current Snow Leopard installation?
I have everything backed up twice just in case, but want to make sure I'm not heading down a path with no good ending. Thanks!

Sure. Several have done that so they can slowly cofigure Lion while keeping their configured SL.
You have backups, which is good.
Follow this advice to store the Lion download and save future re-downloads: https://discussions.apple.com/message/16639520#16639520
But BootCamp/OS will get twitchy if the internal disk has a partition added. I would sugest an external disk for your Lion.

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