I've done this a couple of times. The Windows install will indeed overwrite the MBR, but a reinstall of GRUB or LILO or whatever you want to use (you can just use your linux distro cd) will get it working again just fine. Why can't Windows just learn to play nice?
...Just don't format the linux partition. I know a certain idiot who has done that on accident one too many times. (I try to learn from my mistakes, but it's so much more fun to make them again and again).
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