Windows XP not freezing anymore

I've seen a lot of other frustrated users trying to load Windows XP and then freezing after the Mac driver install. The same thing was driving me crazy with my MBP 15" 2.33 C2D 2GB 160GB 10.5.4 setup. However, I did get Windows XP SP 2 to finally work properly about 3 am last night...
I just installed 10.5.4 on this machine this last weekend and went to install Windows XP SP2 on a Boot Camp partition. I followed the BC directions and got XP installed followed by the Mac driver install, then every reboot brought on a frozen cursor either on a black screen or on the rolling hillside screen before anything else loaded. It seemed to me that rebooting after the Mac driver install was the culprit...others seem to have found the same thing.
Several installs later same thing...then I decided to download the BC 2.1.exe and install it after the XP and Mac driver install but before the reboot and it worked. Here's the sequence that worked for me...not sure if I just got lucky or if this is a repeatable result. Since I got it working, I didn't want to try it again just to see if that was the solution. I'll leave that up to you guys if you choose to try it.
Boot Camp to set partition
Install Windows...reboot
Install Mac drivers so airport will work...don't reboot
Download BC2.1.exe from apple.com and run it
Reboot...no more frozen cursor
Good luck

Hello,
I have the same problem, i tried what u suggested but it still frizzes. if u find something else that you believe it can resolve these problem please reply. i have no other ideas.
Kind regards

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