Creating a new partition for Windows keeps failing

Hello there,
I had a partition (50GB) with Windows XP installed on it for a long time. Finally, I decided to buy Windows Vista. I want to install it but after restoring my Macintosh HD into one, I can not create other partitions. I inserted the Mac OS X 1 DVD and am trying to use Disk Utility from there but it says FAILED: NOT ENOUGH SPACE. How? After creating the partition, I'll have around 45GB of free space for the Macintosh partition. This is really awkward and I don't want to format (erase) my Macintosh HD because I don't want to lose the data. Also, my external is filled and I can't buy a new one at the moment to use for backup.
Does anyone have a solution for this? It really is ******* me off. In addition to that, my optical drive failed on me and I had it replaced for a lot of money in Apple in Egypt, and due to customs and stuff, it was way overpriced. Also, the optical drive failed for absolutely NO reason. I always took care of it and used original (expensive) dvd cleaners every couple of months. I am beginning to question my purchasing decision, I am thinking I should have bought a normal Windows notebook like an Alienware as this is my first Macintosh experience ever.
Thank you very much for your time guys.

I have managed to get it working after reducing the size of the Boot Camp partition. Now it is a 52GB partition but I still don't understand why it wouldn't let me create a bigger one since the Macintosh one would still have had enough space (40gb of free space isn't too bad). If someone could explain, thank you.

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