Bootpicker Won't Boot Windows on MacBook Pro

+We use bootpicker on iMacs, MacBooks, Minis and haven't had any problems until now. Suddenly the late 2008 MacBook Pro won't boot into Windows from bootpicker.+
+It's exactly the same problem described in this archived post that I've quoted below. Same log message as well.+
+Anyone found a solution for this?+
*Bootpicker doesn't reboot automatically on Windows selection*
Posted: Oct 17, 2008 3:00 PM
Hi all! Yesterday I installed Bootpicker (2.1.2) which now is provided by Apple (http://www.apple.com/education/it/bootpicker/) to select between Mac OS X 10.5 and Windows (Boot Camp).
It works fine except following: The Bootpicker menu is displayed after loading Mac OS X directly before Mac OS's login dialog. When I pick Mac OS the Mac OS login dialog is displayed - fine. When I select Windows, also the Mac OS login dialog is displayed. I had expected that in this case Bootpicker will automatically reboot the machine to start up from the Windows partition. Instead I have to manually select the reboot button in the login dialog.
I think there is something wrong. The /Library/Logs/bp.log says following:
17:55:43 BootPicker: Initiating.
17:55:44 BootPicker: Configuring interface for Windows volume/device: /dev/disk0s3
17:55:46 BootPicker: User chose Windows.
17:55:46 BootPicker: Bless args: (
"--device",
"/dev/disk0s3",
"--setBoot",
"--legacy",
"--nextonly"
17:55:47 BootPicker: Flagging slice 3
fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory
Enter 'help' for information
fdisk: 1> Partition 3 marked active.
fdisk:*1> Device could not be accessed exclusively.
A reboot will be needed for changes to take effect. OK? [n] Writing MBR at offset 0.
fdisk: 1> 17:55:47 BootPicker: Terminating.
May be the unsuccessful configuration of the MBR causes the failure? Any other experiences or suggestions?

I think that the issue might be that there is no boot0 in /usr/standalone/i386. I have had similar issues lately when trying to make a bootable usb memory. I think this is necessary for the legacy option in the bless utility. If some one have a solution for this I would like to know as well.

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