Leopard partition will not boot with Boot Camp installed

I am running Leopard 10.5.2 with Boot Camp running Windows XP on about 150 computers in multiple computer labs on my campus. My problem is that a few machines every couple of weeks will stop booting into the Leopard partition. The problematic computers will however boot into Windows every time. Is there an update or something that is causing the Leopard partition to stop booting? I run disk repair and I get "invalid node structure" which causes the repair to fail. My only solution is to partition the drive then re-image the Mac side and Windows side. This unfortunately is not happening to the same computers each time, I fix one computer, then a different has the problem and so on.
Does anyone have an suggestions? By the way, I am running Bombich's BootPicker v. 2.0. Could this be causing the issue?

This helped with a previous Windows issue but when I boot the system while holding "option" key, the Leopard partition does not show up. The Leopard partition shows grey out when I boot from an install DVD and I can not repair permissions or repair disk.

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