ADVICE? Dual boot - in which order?

[Husse]

Yes it is possible but there is a BIG but...
As you could expect Windows does not give a damn about other operating systems so grub will be destroyed.
Luckily that's easy to fix.
Boot the live cd and follow the instructions in the wiki
http://www.linuxmint.com/wiki/index.php ... _your_grub
Of course read it at least once first and write down the number of your present Mint partition. This is simple and I've done it several times (not because of Windows though)

[Husse]

Add something like this to /boot/grub/menu.lst

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title		Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root		(hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader	+1

This is if you have grub in MBR and Windows in the first partition (sda1)

[Husse]

Judging from your posts grub is in MBR
This is the borderland between hard- and software
And it's only grub stage 1 we're discussing when we talk of where grub is....