Serious problem when instaling Boot Camp.

Hi, I hope someone can help me because my boot camp has been giving me every problem imaginable.
When I first tried to install windows, boot camp had no problems creating the partition, but my windows XP, for whatever reasons, did not installed.
So, I borrowed a trial windows from a friend, it installed ok, and I installed 3Ds Max in it(which is pretty much the only reason I needed boot camp, since I don't own a PC), and everything was perfect for the 30 days the trial version lasted.
Then, after it expired, I destroyed, the re-created the partition again, and another friend gave me a copy of his windows XP, and from her everything went to ****. The system installed correctly, but when I ran windows, the graphics were incredibly slow, even dragging a window around the desktop looked really jaggy, and 3DS Max installed, but wouldn't run.
I tried the exact same thing with other 2 windows xp copies(all 32 bit), and the exact same thing happened. And now, I have noticed the when I create the partition for windows, it renames itself "untitled" in the mac os desktop, and, even if I erase it, when I turn on the computer it doesn't get me directly to Mac OS, but rather searches for the windows partition even if it's no longer there. I have to press the alt key for the mac partition to appear.
I hope someone can at least tell me what the **** is wrong with my boot camp, thanks to everybody in advance.

Hi and welcome to Discussions,
as for the startup problem: once you are in OSX goto System Preferences - Startup Volume and set your OSX volume to be the default startup volume.
(During the Windows installation this is set to be the WIndows partition and remains that way until resetted).
For the obvious with the Windows installation: after the successful installation of Windows did you insert your OSX install DVD while in Windows to install the needed BootCamp Windows Drivers ?
If not, then that's why you had these graphics problems.
Read through the BootCamp Installation Guide here http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/
Regards
Stefan

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2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 729.9 Gi disk0s2
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I simply don't know what to do:(
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