This time I managed to install VL, but I'm facing some problems with the boot loader

first time I tried lilo, which resulted in:
lilo error=Fatal
either FIX-TABLE or IGNORE TABLE must be specified
then I reinstalled trying GRUB, the error message was :
Running "install/boot/grub/stage1(hd0,3)(hd0,3) 1+22p (hd0,3)/boot/grub/stage2/boot/grub/menu1st"...failed
Error 6: Mismatched or corrupt version of stage1/stage2
grub>quit
My partition settings were:
primary #1 2GiB swap
primary #2 60GiB NTFS (XP)
primary #3 10GiB ReiserFS (root)
Primary #4 27GiB ReiserFS (user)
logical #5 22GiB (user)
logical #6 5GiB
The 5GiB logical partition was meant for XP/Linux file exchange, but I don't think I did it right

. Anyway that would require a new thread. Any solved similar case?
It doesn't look like I'll have to go through the whole installation process again, does it?