VMware tools on the Windows BootCamp install? Or VMware tools on Leopard?
You start the Boot Camp partition (it will be labeled something like "Boot Camp partition on /dev/disk1" in your Virtual Machines Library) just like any other guest OS. Once you're up and running in Windows under VMware, then pick the "Install VMware Tools" from the Virtual Machine window, just like any other virtual guest OS. That way you get seamless mouse, windowing, and generally better performance and experience.
It's pretty much the same process as any other Windows/Linux/Solaris guest OS too, nothing special for Boot Camp partitions other than they "just work" as Virtual Machines.
So do you just "shut down" the guest OS ?? I guess I'm gonna need to do some more reading before I decide which one to go with. Last thing I wanna do is hose up a perfectly-good XP install.
\If you start up a standard VMware VM (non-Boot Camp partition), then you can suspend/resume and take "snapshots" of VM state. If you start up a Boot Camp partition as a VMware VM, then VMware Fusion won't let you do any of that good stuff lest you'd leave your partition in a strange state, say as suspended (with the NTFS volume flagged as being "in use") and then you reboot from Mac OS X into Boot Camp. Additionally, it also tries to plays nice by first dismounting your Boot Camp Mac OS Xbefore letting you boot it, so that Mac OS X won't monkey with it while you've also booted it as a guest OS. It auto re-mounts it back in OS X after you shutdown your Boot Camp VM too.
To shutdown a guest OS, you should do it the nice way and shutdown per the operating system... the start menu from Windows. But, you can just "pull the plug" or do a hard reset if you want, the options are there on the Virtual Machine menu.
If all you want to do is run Outlook/Office 2003 (except Access), then you'll find CrossOver Mac to be a really nice way to do it without the fuss of the care and feeding of an unnecessary Windows installation/partition. Access 2003 doesn't work quite so perfectly in CrossOver though, although you'll find the rest of Office 2003 pretty near flawless. CrossOver doesn't run everything else outside of it's list of "supported" apps as well as a real life Windows install though, but it's focus has always been getting Office working on Linux/Mac OS X and along the way it can run a surprising number of Windows applications without the need for virtualization or a Windows license, such as Half-Life 2 or uTorrent.