Windows not loading properly in boot camp, black screen

Hi guys,
having problems with bootcamp, running the latest version under snow leopard on an intel mac mini
i bought a copy of XP on ebay, to my dismay, what i actually got in the post was a recovery disk for a dell laptop, and a product key. Although probably illegal to sell to me, it was able to install over the top of my windows 2000 install i did with Parallels. installing to bootcamp as the disk drive is named with a different letter each time i start the virtual machine, causing havoc with games that require the cd to be in the drive, and not knowing where to look for the disc.
I partitioned the drive, and installed windows. once that had finished, it rebooted automatically. but now, whenever i boot up windows under botcamp, i am presented with a black screen with a flashing cursor. i cannot type anything, or bypass it. if the xp disk is in the drive, it says press any key to boot windows from the cd, but pressing any key does not result in anything happening, and so i have to hold the power button down to do an emergency restart.
does anyone know where i might have gone wrong?

solved, by using a windows service pack 2 cd, instead of service pack 3. not sure why the later service pack would not install properly

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