captain neenaw

Scenario - I have XP on my first partition, Linux on the second partition. As far as I can tell, the MBR jumps to the beginning of the linux partition where the bootloader splash screen loads. If I choose to load XP, it then jumps back to the beginning of the first partition and loads XP. Problem - I want to get rid of Linux and reclaim its partition for use by XP, either by repartitioning or reformatting the linux partition. What I think I need to do - Take a ghost image of my XP partition, blow away the linux partition, re-stream my XP from the install CDs that came with the PC (This will put the MBR back to what it should be) and then restore my ghost image. Question - will restoring my Ghost image put the MBR back to what it was? i.e. does Ghost copy the MBR as well? If so, I'm back where I started, with the MBR looking for the start of the second partition's bootloader and not finding one, causing a boot failure. I need to be able to restore the Ghost image without touching the MBR - is this possible? Sorry for the long post, I hope you can help.