OS X 10.5 + Boot Camp 2.0 + Vista Ultimate + NTFS????

I'm puzzled.Had XP working fine with Bootcamp beta under OS X 10.4.
Now under OS X 10.5 Leopard, I want to install Vista Ultimate but the partition is formatted as FAT32, and the Vista installer tells me it needs a NTFS file format.
So back under OS X, trying to reformat the BC partition as NTFS with disk utility but cannot be done. How exactly do I get my partition in the right format BEFORE installing Vista???? Lost.

Hi,
while XP is able to use either FAT32 or NTFS for its own system partition, Vista needs that partition to be NTFS.
OSX Disk Utility is not able to format NTFS.
Your only way is to let Vista format the partition with NTFS during the Vista installation.
Regards
Stefan

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1953525167           1         Sec GPT header
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Signature: 0xAA55
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2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
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