MBP Nvidia Bootcamp black screen XP install

I have encountered a problem I haven't been able to find mentioned anywhere on the web.
I have a Macbook Pro 3,1
15" LED backlit version
Geforce 8600M gfx card 256MB ram
2.4GHz intel
2GB ram
The problem I'm having is when installing xp (only for certain games and autocad) the screen is black.
the apple support website mentions this for late 2006 24" iMac's and offers a fix, but there is nothing for macbook Pro's
should it be safe to use the iMac MXM update on my MBP, or does anyone have any other suggestions?

Just out of interest... was the screen completely black? or was there a very nearly black cursor blinking in the top left corner? I came across that last night when installing Arch onto an AMD Athlon 64 and 7300GS combo... I was using the free driver, and swapped to the nvidia-173xx driver and running nvidia-xconfig worked where Xorg -configure hadn't. The free driver was complaining about a module having a lock on my graphics card, or something similar (yeah, nice and vague ).
Although, being a relative newbie to Arch I could have just messed something up along the way. Tonight's project is to decide on and install a widow manager, so my X experience is more featured than just popping up a VLC client so I can watch a movie... look for some moronic posts in the newbie corner tomorrow

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So you have one of those dual GPU machines? Then you need to read the Bumblebee or Optimus pages on the wiki.
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