Driver issue on bootcamp now

I have bootcamp on my mac and am having a driver issue.  When I switch from mac side to bootcamp, I have to uninstall and reinstall driver to get on internet. Wondering if I did something to cause this issue? can't seem to fix.  Was working previously. Now, I cant switch and get on internet on windows side without uninstalling/reinstalling NVIDIA driver. 

Once you have XP installed, it is independent of BC. My suggestion is to try the 4.0.4033 drivers.
From Bootcamp.xml file for 4.0.4033 (there is also a 64-bit version in the same package).
<BuildInfo BuildNumber="4033" ProductName="Boot Camp">
  <MsiInfo>
  <ProductManufacturer>Apple Inc.</ProductManufacturer>
  <ProductVersion>4.0.4033</ProductVersion>
  <ProductCode>{E8F8AF38-7FFA-407A-8E4B-4722AE20FA30}</ProductCode>
  <Component Name="AppleOSSMgr.exe" GUID="*" SharedDLL="yes">
  <File Name="AppleOSSMgr.exe">
  <KeyPath>yes</KeyPath>
  <FileVersion>4.0.0.1</FileVersion>
  </File>
<Registry>
  <Key>HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run</Key>
  <Name>Brightness</Name>
  <Type>null</Type>
  <Value>null</Value>
  </Registry>
<Name>NVIDIA  Display Driver
  <InfName>NVAO.INF</InfName>
  <Class> Display</Class>
  <ClassGUID> {4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}</ClassGUID>
  <CatalogFile> NVAO.CAT</CatalogFile>
  <Provider>NVIDIA</Provider>
  <DriverVer> 01/19/2011, 8.17.12.6141</DriverVer>
  <ServiceBinary>nvlddmkm.sys</ServiceBinary>
  <HardwareID></HardwareID>
  <isX64>no</isX64>

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