Startup Disk doesn't detect my windows partition

I installed Leopard and used bootcamp to install windows vista ultimate (32-bit). All was working well, switching from os x to vist using the startup disk. I then installed MacFUSE and ntfs-3g. Everything was working fine.
I then decided to get rid of MacFUSE and ntfs-3g. After doing so I could not see my windows partition on finder and Disk Utility was unable to unmount the drive. I tried booting using the Leopard install disk and used that start up to boot into Windows and that worked without any problems.
So I went back to OS X and reinstalled MacFUSE and ntfs-3g. I can access my windows partition again but it does not appear on Startup Disk. I used Disk Utility to verify the partition and this is what I get:
Verifying volume “disk0s3”
** No NTFS file system checks have been implemented yet.
** Reporting that the volume is fine without checking anything.
Verify and Repair volume “disk0s3”
** /usr/local/bin/ntfsfix has been disabled because of volume corruption issues.
** If you still want to try fixing your volume, use /usr/local/bin/ntfsfix from the command line...
Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed.
Any ideas?

Disk Utility wasn't designed or tested to know enough to repair NTFS, even with NTFS-3g and MacFuse, but you might want to track down the web page and feedback.
I saw today that Paragon has a program to read/write to NTFS. If you want something reliable and that has support, check it out.

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