Need to reinstall SL and Boot Camp...

Alright, I am tired and annoyed so this is going to be short.
I had 10.5, I think I had a virus, or I possibly corrupted the **** out of my Safari, which, in turn, corrupted the **** out of my entire Leopard install. I used Boot Camp and installed Windows XP SP 3, along with 3ds Max. I did not have time to back up my XP files (as I am very lazy and it was only about a week ago.) After Snow Leopard installed, my Mac partition stopped working all together, then when I started Windows, it seemed to work fine, I left it go into "standby." When I went to bring WIndows out of standby, the screen flashed for a second, the BLue bar reloaded itself, then everything stopped working. I rebooted the machine and now I can't get past ether the Partition selection screen if I hold Option, or the BLue screen if I load the Mac partition.
I have two questions, now that I think about it:
1) If I reinstall Snow Leopard fresh, can I do that without getting rid of my Windows Partitions, or somehow recover those files after SL is installed (the windows files)?
2) Does this sound like my HDD is failing and/or horrible virus that killed my hard-drive?

Installing Snow will not have any impact on your Windows partition. You can erase the OS X partition if you want, and that will not cause the Windows partition to be touched. If you must erase the OS X volume to reinstall OS X, then you will not be able to recover any files. You would need to do that first.

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