Windows Installer not recognizing partition!

Hey all, I just bought a macbook pro yesterday and have been trying my hardest to install xp viz boot camp. When I start boot camp, I set the partition to 32GB, then click partition. Then a boot camp icon appears on the desktop showing it is 32.11GB in size.
Next it says to put in the XP CD and click start installation. Do that computer restarts, then begins installing windows. However once it gets to the part of choosing which partition to put it on all it shows is c: with 1310xxx MB for the partition. Basically I think it is not seeing my boot camp partition for one reason or another.
I have tried multiple times removing the partition then re-creating it and doing it over and over and cannot seem to find out why the partition isn't being recognized. Any help at all would be great as it doesn't seem anyone has a solution to it. Thanks!
Jerome

I am trying to install Bootcamp, I've followed the instructions up to this point:
1
If you already quit Boot Camp Assistant without installing Windows:
a
Open Boot Camp Assistant.
b
Select “Start the Windows installer.”
c
Click Continue.
2
If you are using a computer with more than one internal disk, select the disk on which
you want to install Windows, and then click Continue.
3
Insert your Windows installation disc.
4
In Boot Camp Assistant, click Start Installation.
5
Your computer starts up from the Windows installation disc. Follow the onscreen
instructions. Refer to the following sections for more information.
Selecting the Windows Partition
It is very important to select the correct partition when installing Windows so that you
don’t overwrite Mac OS X on your computer.
To select the correct partition for Windows XP:
m
Select “C: Partition3 <BOOTCAMP> [FAT32].”
When I select the "C" partition by arrowing down,and hitting enter, I do not get the choice to format the partition that was initially created, what is going wrong?

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