Overwrote entire harddrive with nonbootable windows system

So, I got Snow Leopard installed and updated. Not knowing what I was doing, I though I would shut down and boot up with the Windows XP install cd, thinking I would select the other partition that I had made and load it there, then go run Bootcamp assistant.
Without realizing what I was doing, that boot cd seems to have overwrote everything I had just done. Now I can't repartition the drive, either through an external drive that I am using right now, or through the install cd. With the external drive, the options in Disk Utility for partitioning are greyed out. With the install cd, I keep getting the error that the disk size for the file system isn't correct. Here, the partition I was trying to use was 250 for the Mac extended (journaled) and the remaining 70 for the MSDOS partition.
Now I'm nervous. How do I recover from this and get the partition set up I'm looking for?

jkinst wrote:
Now I'm to figure out how to load XP.
You are doing this the hard way. If you allow Disk Utility to format the drive with the defaults (single HFS+ journal partition & GUID partition scheme) & install Snow Leopard on it, you can then use Boot Camp Assistant to create an appropriate second partition for XP & follow the instructions to install XP & the Boot Camp drivers for Windows on it.
See Apple - Support - Boot Camp (especially the Installation Guide PDF) for all you need to know to do this.

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