if you do use bootcamp no need to partition as BCM will create the partition of you choosing when you run it
Have a look at the seagate momentus XT hard drives, they are hybrid drives, part SSD and part conventional Hard drive. They really make a macbook perform well (about 50 quid for 750gb)
I'm going a bit off track now, but.... I was looking at the hybrid drives a while back, but wasn't sure how reliable it'd be. I use macupgrades.co.uk to get my stuff and they only list 1 hybrid drive as being suitable when I put in my serial no.
http://www.macupgrades.co.uk/store/product_info.php?products_id=821My mate put a 1TB 5400rpm drive in his MBP, and replaced the optical drive with a 60GB SSD, runs the OS on the SSD and stores photos, music and files on the 1TB. Runs really quick, was like having a new laptop all over again. So I think I will look at 1 of those hybrids, and do the same.
Back on subject, ish, had a bit of a play around this afternoon. Looks like bootcamp isn't on my mac, will dig out the install discs and see if it's been accidentally deleted. I did find another program, called crossover 7.1.0 which seemed very promising, allowed me to download a few windows programs I wanted, but when it came to actually running them it kept crashing, had to force close the program and then restart my laptop a couple of times, also seemed to use about 10GB of my hard drive. So the search for a solution continues, though a new hard drive with OSX/Windows partitions is looking the most likely at the moment.