What's with the 32GB partition limit for installing Windows?

I have a 250 GB partition on a hard drive that I want to dedicate to Windows, but I've been reading the Bootcamp manual and it's confusing where it says that you can only create a 5 to 32 GB partition for installing Windows.
Is that the case, or can the partition for Windows be whatever size you want?
How does one go about being able to set up a larger NTFS volume?
I need more room than 32GB to install Windows and the software that I plan to add to it, plus, you need some free drive space so Windows has some room to work well.

This is a too long tale for the forum but you can read all about it on the wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAT32#FAT32
In short, you can not create a BOOTABLE FAT32 partition larger as 32 Gb in Windows XP.
Vista does not even support any bootable FAT32 partition anymore, it has to be NTFS.
FAT32 was good but NTFS is really much better. Go for NTFS and use free tools to read the data from HFSA (Mac OS X file format) if you need to.
BTW formatting your drive in XP over 32 Gb will lead to very cryptic error messages during the install. Its a very bad idea. Force reformat the Boot Camp partition as 32 Gb FAT32 or force reformat into NTFS.

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