Boot camp partition disappeared

Hello out there,
until the last hour I had a working system with a Mac OS X and Boot Camp partition.
After a reinstall of "Missing Sync for Windows Mobile" the Boot Camp partition icon has disappeared and is no longer shown in the start volume preference pane.
But it is still there, because I can select it during boot up, pressing the option key. And it is working fine...
Can someone tell me how to get my Boot Camp partition back into Mac OS X?
Regards
Ansgar
PS: May be the wrong discussion, but does somebody know if there are incopatibilities between MacOS X 10.5.7 and Missing Sync for "Windows Mobile"?

Thanks for the reference. You saved my sanity, or what's left of it. In my desperation, I even started getting to know my partition tables on a first-name basis - a sure sign of madness.
My variation on the problem was that after a disk crash, I restored my system from Time Machine. I didn't quite realize that TM does not restore system extensions, like MacFUSE; it does, however, restore the MacFUSE plug-ins, like NTFS-3G. So NTFS-3G was claiming to handle the Windows partition, but actually wasn't. Based on your post, I tried disabling NTFS-3G from the System Preferences; that's when it told me that MacFUSE was not installed. Duh.
Greetings from Switzerland.
-- Philip
P.S. I use Missing Sync for Windows Mobile, too, and it works fine on 10.5.7 - or as well as it ever did on previous versions.

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