Parallels and Boot Camp on MacPro - New Issue after Security Upgrade

Background: I have a MacPro set up with four internal harddrives. Drive 0 is the main Mac disk (1TB). Drive 1 is a Windows XP drive (250 MB), Drive 2 and Drive 3 are a RAID array. I went through the intial install of Boot Camp following the instructions for using multiple drives. To avoid having to reboot, I installed Parallels and linked the virtual machine to the XP drive. Everything worked fine until Monday.
Monday I installed the latest security update to the Mac OS (running Snow Leopard). After installation the WinXP disk didn't mount. I booted from the DVD and found a problem on the Mac OS drive, which DiskUtility fixed. Now the WinXP drive does mount, and I can read the files when in the Mac OS, but Parallels cannot find the XP OS and BootCamp no longer offers the XP drive as a bootable disk. Can't run Windows, but it's there on the drive. Thoughts?

I'm not certain that it was a partition issue since the entire drive is one Windows partition. However you tweaked my thought process and I booted from my Snow Leopard install disk and "repaired" the OSX drive. There were a couple of "funky" items found courtesy of the upgrade which disk utility cleaned up. Now here comes the really interesting part; Parallels will work and run XP for ONE user on the computer but not the other even though the virtual machine file is shared. Screwy, right? Naturally it is working for the user that uses XP the least...

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586151936
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