Install Leopard on a Macbook with Windows

I recently purchased a used 2007 Macbook and it came with only one partition and Windows XP installed. I am new to the Mac world and unfamiliar with BootCamp.
How would I go about partitioning and installing Leopard on this machine without killing the XP install?
Thanks.

Bummer. I was hoping BootCamp came with some sort of partition manager. So is the recommended course of action to fdisk into separate partitions then install Leopard and reinstall Windows?

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