Does Snow Leopard Affect Boot Camp?

If you have a Mac with Leopard on it, and a Boot Camp partition with Windows XP, is it safe to upgrade Leopard to Snow Leopard? What I'm saying in, will it affect the Boot Camp partition at all, or will that be left untouched?
Basically, I want to know if there is any chance Boot Camp won't working properly, after upgrading to Snow Leopard.

Reuben,
Installing Snow Leopard will have no effect, as has already been stated in this thread. However, there are new Bootcamp drivers in the DVD One of the nice things about them is they bring HFS+ support to Windows. In other words, you can now access your installation of OS X, but as read only (to prevent Windows viruses messing with the "Mac side").
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