but for sanities sake, why not buy an external 500GB USB drive and put all your Windows stuff on that? I was in the Wall Of Mart a few weeks ago and they are very very reasonably priced : )

Heck, I picked up a Western Digital 1TB USB drive for the price of a song. Plugged it into a USB port and Time Machine automatically fired up and I formatted the drive and made a complete back-up. When it was finished I dragged the drive's icon to the trash, turned it off, and packed it away for the next back-up session.

Piece of cake  : D

Oooo... heck! Almost forgot. You can download Apple's Boot Camp for free (if it isn't already on one of the OS disks). Let's you run Windows on your Mac.

 Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things!  ; )