Bootcamp: Win 7 installation deleted my default booting: now MBPro turns on in windows

Hi,
I'm new to Mac but i'm not a newbie ti it and to computer world. I (sob) need to have also windows on my new MBPro 15" early 2011, but I had a problem: 1.Bootcamp formatted for my windows a partition that i imagine was FAT file system, but Win 7 needs a NTFS file system in order to run. When i installed Win on the partition created with Bootcamp it asked me to reformat it in NTFS. I let it do it but installing it Win took the boot start on this partition instead of the Mac one and so now my Mac on power on starts with windows!! Do I have some possibility to run again Mac without reinstalling it?
2. The second question is: Bootcamp told me that for installing the windows driver for the Mac hardware the second install cd that came with my Mac should go well, so I do not downloaded nor burned the driver cds. But after installing Win 7 I noticed that that cd is only for Mac and win recogniced it as blank writeable cd. How to install that cd without have the possibility to boot again in Mac? (P.S. I have another working online WIN 7 computer, if someone can simply paste on this discussion the link (if compatible with win 7) I can download and burn it with that pc and than install it on the Win partition of the MBPro). Thank you for any help or advice you will give!!
i7 Quad-core 2.2
4GB RAM GDDR 1333Mhz
750 GB HDD
ATI 6750 1Gb
Snow Leopard 10.6.6

When you start the MBP you will hear a bong sound, press and hold the option key when the sound starts.
You can then select the OS X icon to boot into OS X.
Go into System Preferences -> Startup Disk and set OS X as your default OS.
Subsequently you can use the same procedure to boot Windows.
There should be an application in Windows Control Panel to make the boot default Windows.
It will not be there until you install the driver disk.

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Bonjour
Apple Application Support
Reboot, download iTunes, then reinstall, either using an account with administrative rights, or right-clicking the downloaded installer and selecting Run as Administrator.
The uninstall and reinstall process will preserve your iTunes library and settings, but ideally you would back up the library and your other important personal documents and data on a regular basis. See this user tip for a suggested technique.
Please note:
Some users may need to follow all the steps in whichever of the following support documents applies to their system. These include some additional manual file and folder deletions not mentioned above.
HT1925: Removing and Reinstalling iTunes for Windows XP
HT1923: Removing and reinstalling iTunes for Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8
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I am trying to instal the latest version of iTunes onto my MacBook Pro, but my computer has been "configuring" the installation since 5pm yesterday and now it is 10:30am. It has never done this before. Can anybody help me out?

I am trying to instal the latest version of iTunes onto my MacBook Pro, but my computer has been "configuring" the installation since 5pm yesterday and now it is 10:30am. It has never done this before. Can anybody help me out?

Many thanks b Noir
This is a copy of ONEof the keys in the registry I changed as told by Apple support today. I also have changed others as instructed by GEAR software support to manually delete GEAR drivers (that I had installed but couldn't delete some of the others they mentioned from Windows system 32. Then some bright spark at work told me I need the Gear drivers so I downloaded the software and installed again.
Sorry, just this minute went to insert image and it is giving me a message saying this sort of content is not allowed?.
The most recent key I altered is in: HKey _local _machine. System\class - 4D36E965-E325-11CEBFC1-08002BE10318. Upper Filter data: Upper filter NTIDrvr SiRem GEARAspiWDN.
The GEARsoftware info about manually deleting GEAR drive is from:
http://www.gearsoftware.com/wiki/index.php?title=DRIVERS:_Windows_-_Updating%2C_ removing%2C_64_bit_versions%2C_etc
I hope you can help

Bootcamp - Win 7 Install goes to black screen

Hi folks, I'm running a 15" MBP Mid 2009.
2.8 Core 2 Duo
8 GB RAM
Nvidia GeForce 9400M 256 Mb
OSX 10.8.5
Just this weekend I purchased Mountain Lion and decided to start completely fresh. Used the AppStore download to create a USB boot disk. Removed all existing partitions (Read: used disk utility to erase and format as MacOS Extended (journaled)). Installed the fresh copy of OSX to this new partition. Once in the OS I configured my settings, installed iLife and Office and updated all software. All is well with OSX, now it's time for Windows 7.
I run bootcamp assistant. I resize the partitions such that Windows gets 250GB and MacOS gets 500GB. It prepares a usb stick with support files on it then makes sure it's not bootable. I insert my Windows 7 Ultimate disk and get ready to reboot.
Once I reboot I can hear the disk churning and working but the screen is completely black. Tried closing and opening the lid and nothing. Eventually my only choice is to hold the power button for 5 seconds. I use the option key to boot back into OSX fine and everything is as expected there.
For reference the disk i am using is the same exact disk I had used previously to install Windows to this very machine. I have also tested it on other PC's to verify it is bootable so that may rule out a lot of the common suggestions. I also re-burned the same iso at a slower speed and I'm getting the same results with both disks.
What I've found on the web and/or tried:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3173 - Seems to be related to the iMac of the same year. I'm hesitant to install iMac drivers on a MBP. However I have a feeling that the issue might be related.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2600 - Resetting PRAM and SMC did not resolve the issue. Still unable to boot to the Windows 7 Boot disk
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4536 - This described a different problem as I do not have the blinking cursor, however I did try removing the USB drive that OSX prepares but no luck there either.
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/12275/black-screen-when-installing-boot -camp - References the first 2 KBs I found but the interesting suggestion here was to try a second monitor. The best I had available was a mini display port to VGA and using a VGA-to-DVI cable to talk to my monitor (which has no VGA port). No luck there. tried plugging/unplugging the adapter a few times.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1229631 - On this thread, Post #18 suggests that the new EFI does not allow booting off CD and apparently the USB stick needs to be bootable to make changes to the EFI to allow it to boot from CD. I'm not sure about the validity of this claim but I did download the BootCamp 4.0.4033 for the MBP mid 2009 to try to make a bootable USB - This is on my list of 'to try' items
I knew I was hitting a point where pretty soon I won't be able to self-prescribe the solution so I came to the community for answers.

I have a case open with Apple Support. It is currently in escalation. I will update this thread once I have more information from them.
In the meantime I have tried:
Created a slipstreamed Windows 7 install image with the apple drivers available for my MBP in the bootcamp support files and made both a DVD and a USB install. Both drives are verified bootable, neither resolved the blackscreen issue. Either the graphics driver is not the issue or the drivers I slipstreamed into the install did not work.
Any other thoughts or troubleshooting ideas are greatly appreciated at this time while I wait until Friday for escalation to get back to me.

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