Ext Firewire: Booting Mac OS(extended) and still having a FAT32 part.

Hello-
Anyone have any tricks to be able to partition a drive: 1 Fat32 and the other Extended/Journaled, that will enable someone to load OS X on the extended journal and still have the Fat32?
I've tried a bunch of different utilities on both the mac and PeeC, but am not able to do this... Here is what I've found:
- If I partition the drive in 2, I am forced to choose PC or Mac boot
- If I choose Mac boot, I am able to load os X, but can't format the 2nd partition FAT32
- If I choose PC boot, I am not able to load os X, but can create both an extended and FAT32 partitian.
Any tricks to get around this? Thanks.
PBG4 Mac OS X (10.4.8) Acronis Disk Director on the PC, Disk utilities on the mac
PBG4   Mac OS X (10.4.4)  

This hint appeared at MacOSXHints.com and pretty much explains how it can be done. There may be additional coverage at the site, but this one popped up quickly.
A drive must be formatted as one MS-DOS partition by default. If you format the drive MS-DOS you cannot also create an HFS partition without some sort of trick as referenced above.
Of course you can format the drive Mac OS Extended and partition it to your hearts content. Then use Windows software like MacDrive to enable reading and writing Mac disks on the PC.
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