Installing Windows xp OEM sp2 problem

I am having trouble loading window XP pro OEM sp2 using Bootcamp on my macbook OSX 10.5.8 It gets through copying all the files and reboots successfully through to the install window and the setup program for windows (where it displays various marketing info and has dot buttons down the left hand side). It says it will take 39 mins to setup but the counter never changes and I have left it up to an hour and nothing happens although once I did get a disk error message (something about cleaning the CD - can't remember exactly). I am doing full installs and have tried FAT and NTFS. At first I thought it was because it was an OEM but it is a Microsoft OEM and other people online seem to have no problems installing and I have read all the posts here and no-one seems to have this particular problem. Is this a dud CD or version of windows or am I just doing something wrong? Any help would be appreciated since I would really like to use the OEM I have and not have to buy a retail.

Hi Lynnne
I don't think the OEM disc is the problem although I cannot be 100% sure. Please let me explain:
I initially installed XP-Pro using an OEM disc, way back in 2006 - worked fine back then - installing XP in Parallels, VMware Fusion, and finally BootCamp when ever it was that it came out of Beta.
Now? I cannot get past a hal.dll error on a clean install using BootCamp on a freshly formatted (FAT32 or NTFS) partition - using THE SAME disc!
Why? I suspect it has to do with a BootCamp update from a few months ago (June?). Ever since that BootCamp update I've got nothing but unresolvable blue screens in XP. Now, however, I cannot re-install XP. Heck, I've also tried installing Vista 64bit as well as a recently purchased Win7Pro 64 bit - all no-go's.
So to recap - I don't think the OEM disc is the problem. I'm looking into my BootCamp update theory.

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