Cannot Boot from XP SP2 CD when Installing

I've got a Mac Pro with a ATI Radeon X1900 card. I purchased XP Home SP. I ran Boot Camp Assistant and set up a 32 GB Fat. My Mac froze with the Gray Screen of death. I have tried forcing it to boot from the XP disc by holding down the “C” key while booting. No good. I can get back into OS X Leopard by holding down the “Option” key and selecting the Mac HD. I was able to install Boot Camp and XP under Tiger. I did a clean install of Leopard after a compete reformat of the drive (don’t ask).
Leopard is working Ok, I just can’t get Boot Camp working with XP. I have a few applications that require XP. I have checked the XP disk and it checks OK.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Rick

Yes, I can select it and it spins for a while and nothing. It's a bit frustrating. I moved to Mac because it "simply" works. So far Leopard and Boot Camp haven't works as well as I'd like.
Boot Camp worked well under Tiger. I had Parallels on at one time. I've since completely re-formatted my hard drive to get a clean Leopard install. The Leopard install did not go smoothly before the reformat.
Boot camp did stop working under Tiger after a Parallels update. I figured that a complete format and clean install would fix all. I'm not ready to re-install Parallels.
Thanks!
Rick

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