Uninstall Bootcamp, What's left behind?

Okay I know this may sound weird but I'm wondering if anyone knows an answer to this. About 8 months ago I used the Boot Camp beta to run WinXP on my MacBook Pro 2,2. I ended up deciding I didn't want it and used the Boot Camp Assistant to remove it. All ways fine. I have since did an Erase and Install of Leopard, all is still fine. But I was messing around with rEFIt (never installing it) but I ran its Partition Inspector and got this:
Current GPT partition table:
# Start LBA End LBA Type
1 40 409639 EFI System (FAT)
2 409640 312319623 Mac OS X HFS+
Current MBR partition table:
# A Start LBA End LBA Type
1 1 312581800 ee EFI Protective
MBR contents:
Boot Code: Unknown, but bootable
Partition at LBA 40:
Boot Code: None (Non-system disk message)
File System: FAT32
Listed in GPT as partition 1, type EFI System (FAT)
Partition at LBA 409640:
Boot Code: None
File System: HFS Extended (HFS+)
Listed in GPT as partition 2, type Mac OS X HFS+
Whats up with these FAT and FAT32 partitions? Was something left over from Boot Camp and I've never realized it? I ran diskutil list in Terminal and got this:
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUIDpartitionscheme *149.1 Gi disk0
1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS MacBook Pro 148.7 Gi disk0s2
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Applepartitionscheme *297.5 Gi disk1
1: Applepartitionmap 31.5 Ki disk1s1
2: Apple_HFS rob 297.5 Gi disk1s2
I don't see anything there mentioning FAT or FAT32 but EFI is there. By the way /dev/disk1 is my File Vault Disk Image, I know that.
If I run rEFIT on a thumb drive, by holding down option on boot, my Mac of course asks to boot from my internal drive or the thumb drive running rEFIt, once rEFIt is loaded it asks to boot into my OSX partition or a Windows partition.... huh!? I thought it was gone! If I run it I get a usual looking white text on black screen saying there is nothing to boot to. So how is there any windows-type partition still there?
So does anyone know? Is something left behind from those partitions that Boot Camp made that not even an Erase and Install of OS X Leopard got rid of? I know this is a little OSD of me, but I'm dying to know. And would love to know how to remove all traces of it. Thanks!

No. Firefox keeps all session data (incl. cookies) in memory in PB mode and doesn't store any data on disk. Only the memory cache is used and not the disk cache (see the about:cache page).

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I have installed the firmware upgrade from BT, but this did nothing for me.
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Chris.

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I ran Norton One-Button Cleanup which removed a lot of useless iTunes and QT registry entries, links, etc (I had previously uninstalled these programs).
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Set and done!
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PTN_ID                                                   NUMBER
MIN_D1                                                   NUMBER
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MIN_D2                                                   NUMBER
MAX_D2                                                   NUMBER
MIN_D3                                                   NUMBER
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