Windows XP runs slow under bootcamp

Back in 2006 I installed the beta bootcamp on my iMac and loaded winxp. All worked fine.
Sometime after the beta expired my winxp started to run phenomenally slow (taking minutes to register a single keypress or mouse click). Virus scanner showed no problems and when booting to the Mac OS the system ran fine (thus no hardware issues).
At that time I upgraded to Leopard in order to get the released version of bootcamp which seemed to solve my slow winxp issue.
Now I am back to the same problem with the extremely slow winxp operation, no bugs found by the virus scanner and the Mac OS runs fine when I boot to it.
Is bootcamp somehow interfering with the operation of windows?

Windows 7 Pro 64-bit then. While unsupported it works and your best bet but takes a couple extra steps.
A dedicated drive for Windows.
Microsoft Security Essentials for AV/malware
Latest Nvidia etc drivers.
Get rid of whatever AV you are using.
Maybe throw in another 4 x 1GB RAM.
There is a forum for Boot Camp.
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=237
Mac Pro forum (pre-2009 and 2009)
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=194

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