Supported versions of Windows in Boot Camp Assistant 5.1.0

I was just hoping someone could help me figure out which versions of Windows are supported in Boot Camp Assistant.
I want to use this to install Windows on a separate partition of my hard drive, and I do not want to use Parallels or other virtual machine software. I only have a copy of Windows XP, which will do what I need it to, and obviously it would be nice to not have to buy a copy of Windows 7 (which is simply over-priced).
Is there any way to install Windows XP with Boot Camp Assistant, or is Windows 7 the only supported version?
Thanks!

Thanks for the quick reply. I will look into which one will of those is the one that will work best for me. I tried trial version of them many years ago and was not impressed with any of them. I've read that they are much better with the Intel Chip set. Thanks again Bob.

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Hey, from having spent some time trying to partition many partitions on macbooks, here are some thoughts:
- Not sure if the boot camp assistant will let you go that interesting...
- Were you thinking about using refit to select partitions on boot? I can vouch that it works well, but keep in mind that the MBR that it creates can only support 4 partitions as you noticed.. in practice i've only been able to create 2 dos/ntfs partitions that you can use to boot windows off.
My drive setup is as follows:
- 1 420gb partition for osx and data (since bootcamp 3 has read support for the apple file system, i keep my media etc on this partition to keep apple app's happy and use read access from windows).
- 1 40gb partition for windows.
- 1 40gb partition for windows data (so you can reinstall windows if you need to and keep your games/standalone apps somewhere without having to reinstall).
How i go about this is:
1. Boot into your mac with the osx install/restore dvd.
2. Run diskutils.
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I've tried using a partition tool in windows with some success (easus partition manager i think) but when i added new partitions via this, i couldn't/gave up getting those partitions visible in osx..
Getting windows and osx partitions to play nicely in both operating systems is a quite fun and long adventure if you want more than 2 partitions As mentioned earlier, how i run is my bulk storage is on the osx partition, keeps apple apps happy and read access via windows works better than the other way around.
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This is hopefully not an electronic EDU/MSDN ISO of Windows that you burned wtih Apple Disk Utility?
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http://blog.macsales.com/page/2
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