Cannot choose partition size

When I get to the first screen after the "print instructions" screen, the options for the Mac partition and Windows partition read "-2147483648 GB" instead of the actual amounts.
I am on a late 2007 MacBook and had to manually install the Boot Camp Assistant package, but other than that nothing out of the ordinary with my computer. I even ran a disk verification on the disk utility to make sure everything is cool, and the verify came up OK.
Any ideas?

You'll need to boot from the Install disk to do this via Disk Utility. Doing so will wipe out all the data on your HD however. There is a third party solution called iPartition that reformatting is not necessary, but I will still do a full backup just in case.

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    Hi,
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    State: Okay
    Size: 92274688 blocks (44 GB)
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    3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused     
    4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

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