Graphics Firmware Update 1.0 for 17inch Unibody

I was trying to update, just there is a problem. drive ultility shows me that my harddisk has a master boot record type. But this is quite impossible, cause i am booting everytime to osx and osx needs a guid type. Under systempreferences start volume i can't see neither the osx partition nor the xp partition, i just can see network partition, but am not on a network. i can even not start the boot camp. But i can also boot inside windows by pressing the alt button. What can i do to make this update? Thanks

I do reinstall everything and i am very disapointed with apple bootcamp. the problem is, as i said: i formated as guid with leopards dvd, then i did the graphical update. but when i do bootcamp, it mades itself a master boot, it converts it!!! so when apple has released this update, it was allready master boot type. and i couldn't install the update before. i also try to remove the partition but it will stay master boot. it seems apple does not give a good support to recover from master boot record partition table to the early guid partition table. ok but now i managed it, i just reinstall everything. just is a little beat anoying everytime reinstalling everything after a need firmware update. I hope apple does something with bootcamp to made it possible, to convert back to guid partition table without the need of formatting the disk and reinstalling everything, thanks!
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