WinXP in Bootcamp on new 21.5" iMacs won't install

My company recently purchased a bunch of the new 21.5” iMacs with the intention to continue to rollout all apple hardware for all machines in our office. A large portion of these iMacs were to be running XP under Bootcamp. On our older iMacs, the install of XP was a no brainer...no issues at all. On these new ones, I’ve tried 5 different XP install disks and none of them will work. I can get to the point when the XP installer reboots the machine the first time, but once it starts to boot off the internal HD to continue the installation process, I get hit with the following error:
Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
<Windows root>\system32\hal.dll.
Please re-install a copy of the above file.
I’ve done some research and some people are saying its the way that Bootcamp under Snow Leopard partitions the drive that screws up the install, but all of the suggestions I’ve found online don’t work. I’m stuck.

I imagine you've tried partitioning with Disk Utility?

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