Windows Vista Partition Not Showing Up in OSX

Hi,
I have a Windows Vista partition that is not visible under OSX, and I have MacFuse/NTFS-3G installed.
When I open up Disk Utility, I can see the Vista partition, named as "disk0s3" but when I try to mount it... it says "The disk 'disk0s3' could not be mounted".
If I use boot camp and load into Windows Vista, I can see my Macintosh HD fine using MacDrive... and I can read/write to it.
Anyone have any ideas as to why I can't mount my Vista partition in Leopard?
Thanks.

Yea, I tried Paragon NTFS, but the Vista partition doesn't show up in the list.
I'm starting to wonder if I checked on GUID partition (heard tht matters for boot camp) when I installed OSX and Windows Vista.
The drive that I have in my Macbook Pro right now is 500gb seagate momentus that I got from OWC. Ever since I re-installed everything on this new drive, I have not been able to see the partition.
On my older drive, the one that came with Macbook Pro, I could see the Windows partition.
Do you guys think the GUID option has something to do with it?

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