Help, Boot camp beta, wont partition!

Hey guys, ive done tons of research, called apple, they directed me here. Ive already searched all over the internet.
So i have a mac book pro 10.4.10, with bootcamp beta installed.
I dont care whats on my computer, i just want one partition of mac osx leapord (i have tiger right now, but the leapord cd).
Ive put my date back before sept. 2007 to run boot camp manager, but whenever it says that the windows xp partition has been restored, and i restart the computer, it isnt gone!
I dont no what to do, should i mess with disk utility? Everything is grayed out on there.
Help me out!
THANks

I am having a problem with bootcamp and my partition and stuff I will say what it is now because i need help. I had the partition for a long itme and i want to resize it so i did what everyone does and set the date back to 2007-2008. even before i wanted to test something out and converted the stuff to from fat32 in windows to NTST.
Now when i go too boot camp to use the utilities such as superduper or CCC and disk utility so i copy the partiton i am confused how to do so. it keeps saying i have to reformat it to something else and disk utility is the only way how it is driving me nuts in all three. help please.

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