Nvidia 320m driver for WinXP on mac mini

I hope that this post is appropriate in this category…
I just get my new mac mini and start to become a mac user. But due to the fact that many of the software I use for my work only run on Windows, I have to bootcamp WinXP.
After I install the drivers from bootcamp disc on WinXP, there are still some problems on the following devices:
Ethernet Control Card
SM Bus Controller
Slave Processor
VGA Control Card
I don’t know how the first three devices would affect, but VGA Control Card do bothers me since I can’t even browse the website smoothly.
I search the net and it seems that NVIDIA DRIVERS 258.96 WHQL would work. I download it and it doesn’t work for me. I also find that the 320m driver for WinXP is on this link: http://files.me.com/jason_fearing/jai1zj. But this link seems shut down.
I would appreciate if anyone is kind to help me.

I really would like to update my Nvidia 320M drivers also there has to be a way
the drivers like you said are very outdated
please get us some updates apple

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