The way I got around this is to make a copy of the HAL.inf (HALMP.inf) and remove the reboot commands. The problem is that inf is unsigned. At the time of install I have my driver signing policy set to Ignore. I have used this method for over a year with several XPSP2 builds without issue.
About RUNDLL32.EXE SETUPAPI.DLL,InstallHinfSection
in Device Drivers
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