Dual Boot Mac Pro 10.6 + Linux

I have snow leopard + centos 5 dual-boot setup on a new Mac Pro. There is one problem --- when a user logs onto the mac side, they are prompted to initialize, or ignore the ext3 partitions. This is because snow leopard can't read the ext3 partition. If the user clicks initialize, it will attempt to destroy the linux partition.
I tried adding the partition UUID to /etc/fstab with the noauto flag but that does not work probably because 10.6 can't see the UUID.
diskutil info /dev/diskXsY does not output any UUID for the linux partitions so I can't specify the partitions in fstab.
I also tried specifying /dev/disk[X]sY noauto but [X] changes after each reboot. It 'fixes' the problem for approximately 50% of the time.
Any suggestions? Thanks for any input. 

My son the debian geek insists that rEFIt is the only way to get this to work on one drive. It is not an accident it has "EFI" in the middle of its name.
I understand it keeps up the GUID illusion Mac OS X wants and also maintains the old-fashioned  partition tables unix wants to see.

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