Installation on Macbook with black screen problems

Hi, Having a hard time installing BootCamp on a Macbook 2007 model..
It would go to the point when it is restarting from the XP disk to install and show a black screen.
I have tried everything I have read.
remove battery.
reset pram
do disk utilities off of Leopard Disk...
The machine is running 10.5.6
But the kicker is that it would install Vista fine from two different installation cd's but I have tried XP SP2 from at least four different cd's and would have the problem.
Anyone have any idea why it would install Vista (both home and business edition) fine but not XP SP2?
thanks
rsp

I'm dealing with this problem for a week now. Fact is, I could when I got my Mac do the partition using Boot Camp and install Vista. But last week I got an error message that windows can't find the ntoskrnl.exe (or that's defect). I couldn't start windows from the CD, I couldn't start it from another windows CD, nothing worked. Since I didn't have that many data on windows I decided to delete the partition and start from scratch using Boot camp. So far I tried to reboot probably 100 times trying out everything I found on all forums.
Using Disk Utility to check HD, run repairs, even erased everything on the new boot camp partition. That all works fine. But as soon as I restart from the CD to start the Windows installer I get a black screen.
Unplugging power cords for 30 seconds: no success
Holding down ALT/Option key: no success
taking the battery out: no success
running the FreeDos: no success (didn't start running the CD)
The solutions 1 and 2 suggested by LukeD: no success.
I'm pretty upset and lost right now. I do need a windows for running a learning software that wouldn't work on Mac. Now I'm trying to fix my Mac and I'm not able to learn anything at all.
Any suggestions?

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