Daul boot nigthmares!

Some excellent tutorials here for Dual booting vista and XP when vista is the first OS. Finally got round all the raid issues that come with my Laptop, ie no recognition of HD during XP set up. Fixed that with nlite and Intel Matrix storage, but now we get the fun issue! My vista recovery disc has no option to repair from boot!!!! So after I installed XP and then went to repair the boot sequence so the computer recognising Vista and XP in the boot menu, all I managed to do was completely format and install Vista! Why is everything so rubbish?

Any ideas what I could do (and don't say buy a new copy of Vista!)?