Snow leopard - Boot Camp - Windows XP

Hi Guys!
One quick question, I had installed Windows XP using Boot Camp on my iMac, when it was still running Leopard. The installation was successful, I don't go online using Windows, as I only use it to play some games with my children, and I don't want any virus... and mainly... I don't need Windows for anything else!!!
After installing Snow Leopard, do I have to update any Windows driver using Boot Camp?
If so, how do I do it? Just launch Boot Camp and let it look for the drivers?
Thanks a lot for any help...
: )

*Hey kappy / hatter*
Thanks a lot for your responses...
I thought about booting from the SL cd as well, but I was not sure about it... hatter, what do you mean by?
*"You don't have to install Boot Camp 3.0 to XP"*
Does it mean I shouldn't do the procedure recommended by Kappy?
About my XP partition, I use it solely to play games like, Zoo Tycon, CimCity, Lego, etc with my little children... so i have no back up... in case it goes bad... I don't lose anything, and reinstall XP. All my professional apps and files are on my iMac partition... Photoshop, Flash, etc... then I have both a bootable SuperDuper backup, and a Time machine backup too.
On XP, I just wanna make sure I have all the drivers installed to run the games ok...
Thanks

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