[Novices] Hard Drive Partitioning

[Mark]

I bought a new 120Gb hard drive for an older system.  I still need the
system to run Win98 but that is only occasionally.  I thought I would
make this one a dual boot system to try out some of the Linux business
apps.

My questions are: 
A) What is the best way to partition this for the dual boot?  

B)Should the swap partition be a primary partition or can it be a
logical one?

C)  I'd like to have 3 partitions for the windows side; an OS partition,
a programs partition and a data partition.  I was going to make the
program and data logical partitions.  If I do this would Linux be able
to read the data partition?

TIA,
Mark