Help! My MacBook is stuck in Windows!

I bought a new hard drive for Christmas. Leopard loaded fine and everything was good. Since my wifes computer was in the shop I decided to use Bootcamp to install Windows so that my kids could use some of their games. Somehow I deleted the wrong parition (the one with all the mac stuff).
Since that time the only operating system that runs is windows. The ciomputer won't boot from the Leopard DVD (not a problem with the drive because it boots fine from the Windows cd). I have put the comuter in target mode and reinstalled and every time I try to reboot I get a black screen and a message that there is no bootable drive available. I have tried all the force starts, even put in my old hard drive with Leopard still on it and i still get the message. Can't figure out what is causing the problem, but I know I want my Mac back. Please help if you can.

Just an "educated guess." I recently had a similar experience and deleted by wiping my hard drive partition , had two with OS Leopard. Kept Windows. Still had my problem. Once I wiped out Windows my Mac problem went away.
This is not the same issue you have but hey , aren't we fish-boning on this one?

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