Thank you for the clear and useful description of the process. A
newbie like me needed a bit more particular description how to do all
that.
> 3)  ... What I do and suggest for you is to install the new distro's
> boot loader to the boot sector of its partition and chain your current
> boot loader to that boot loader.  This way your new distro will be
> able to automatically set up any boot arguments for you in the boot
> loader configuration.
> To chain your current boot loader you use the same method as you use
> for loading Windows.  In GRUB create the following boot entry (change
> the title and partition location as necessary):

What configuration files on /etc/ or in some other directory should one modify?
Can you do that using some graphical tools or only editors like vi/vim?

> See 
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Applications_GUI_Multimedia/Chainloading_in_Linux
> for more info on this.
Thanks for the address, I try to read and understand what they say ....

> 4)  ....  Windows will take a little voodoo to make work,
OH NO!   It is very important for me that my always reliable WindowsXP
 works well as it does now. I do not direct any magic on it.
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