Boot Camp Utility Missing From Windows 7

Hi all,
I'm running an 8-core Mac Pro blah blah blah with 3x1t hard drives. I've used the Boot Camp utility to make one of those 1t hard drives into windows 7. This worked perfectly, in fact I'm currently typing from Windows 7. However...
When I've done this previously there was always a Boot Camp utility within Windows 7 (in the bottom right of my task bar) which allowed me to switch back from Windows 7 to Mac, and vise versa... This time the Boot Camp utility within Windows 7 which allows me to go back to Mac has disappeared ... I'm stuck in Windows 7!
Any idea why this might be? And how I can might download Boot Camp or something to rectify this problem?
Thanks in advance,
Matt

Your OS X 10.6 DVD has the 3.0.4 drivers and you would then need to update 3x to get to 3.3
So do you or did you get to 3.2 at least? 3.0 and 3.1 were buggy.
Mounting and accessing HFS drive volumes was also causing BSODs; and does not work when there are Apple array volumes.
There is also and better place to look is control panels: Boot Camp with its own startup disk section
'x' on startup = Mac OS
Check Services and startup items. You should have
OSSwitcher
Apple TimeServices (without which time will be off every time you switch OS)
Programs control panel: Boot Camp there? try Repair.
Lion allows downloading Boot Camp 4.x driver from Boot Camp Assistant to put on USB device or elsewhere that you access in Windows.
www.apple.com/support/bootcamp guide faq how to articles etc
Maybe you have a corrupt system and time to do a chkdsk and also boot from Windows DVD and allow it to do system repair or restore from a good check point

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