BIOS won't see GRUB after installation (??)

Hi all.
I've been experimenting with Linux for a couple of years now just for the heck of it, and still I don't consider myself "that good", so I decided to try out Arch myself to "test" my Linux skills. Installing on a VM is too easy, since I could do things carelessly, so now, I'm trying to get it running on real hardware.
So onto the problem. Sorry for the long intro
For now, I'm trying to dualboot Vista and Arch with the suggested layout in the guides. Overall, I have 149GB of space. Here's a screenshot of EASEUS showing my partitioning. I didn't actually make the partitions with EASEUS but with GParted. Anyway, here it is.
Everything after drive D is an extended partition, and stuff under it are logical (I'm not really sure of what I'm talking about here, but that's how I set them up )
The last 4 are in this order(since it can't be seen in Windows):
- /boot
- linux-swap
- /home
Just a few more details: I skipped the part that involves using cfdisk since I already partitioned my disk with Gparted. I moved on to the mount points thingy, and selected the first option (the one with the /dev). I was pretty sure that I only had to pick one. Then I set the partition's respective mount points. Went on with the installation and installed GRUB on /boot (sda5 in my case, in case you're wondering).
After everything was done with the installation, I realized that I forgot to set the bootable flag thingy on sda5, and so I did, with GParted. Restarted again, and still nothing --' I could still boot to Vista though when I re-set the boot flag on sda1.
Any help? Any step that I'm missing?

@Inxsible: Mmmkay, I'll try that out right now. I'll just reinstall Arch since it'd be such a hassle setting up grub without Arch booting
@Cagnulein: /boot is sda5. I checked with the cfdisk before I moved on to setting mount points
@hokasch - Thanks. Setting bootflag to sda1

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