Hi,
From another newbie dealing also dealing with boot probs at mom (I'm trying to brom from a USB2 HDD using a notebook with Debian - no success so far...).
As you say, winXP just took you bootloader out and failled, not so stange, and that one of the reasons you should instal it first.
I don't know your distribution, but with Mandrake (9.2 and 10.0, at least) if you run the installation again, as an update/upgrade you keep you definitions and end up with the bootloader in place again (only tryied with Lilo, but must be the same)
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