Windows **** using parallels, imac intel HELP!

Here's my set up:
airport extreme firewall (dhcp / nat + reasonable passwords)
imac intel running parallels running xp sp2
I'm running call logging software and xp has just c**pped it's pants on me, corrupt data files and all my work is down the toilet, I have backups but not recently as I would like. But I don't know for the life of me why it happened.
The only weird thing is that I have 3 base stations, one main, two remotes, one of the remotes - the one feeding the imac, disappeared off the network, so I rebooted the main one, and it reappeared, checked the config - it was fine and is now working again I don't know if this is related.
1. Is this windows s**king as per usual
2. Or is it a virus taking advantage of windows (windows is on the net through shared networking through parallels and the airport extreme system)
3. or have a got a dud hard drive and it's about to die on me?
Urgent help required!
Thanks,
Miklos.

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