Can't boot anything after attempting to Bootcamp

Hi,
I have an Intel Macbook Pro (can't think what year off the top of my head right now) running Snow Leopard and I attempted to Bootcamp with a standard Windows XP disk a few hours ago. A few minutes before the attempt I finished reformatting and reinstalling Snow Leopard, as I'd been having disk utility problems. I set the partition for 50GB (of 200GB) in the Bootcamp Utility, but when it restarted, I was presented with only a single partition to choose from, which was 130GB. I couldn't see the 50GB, so decided to exit. After exiting the MBP attempted to load the disk again, but failed. From then on I can't load any operating system (not that I expect I could load XP), and it boots to a black screen with a flashing cursor in the top left corner. I can't load the original Snow Leopard install disk, or any disk, and I also can't boot into safe mode. When I use the alt/option key boot, I'm faced with a semi-large grey lock with a password field.
If anyone needs more info, I'll try find it.
Thanks,
chunks01

Hi and welcome to Discussions,
the single partition of 130GB phenomenon usually indicates that you used a Windows XP CD that does not match the requirements of BootCamp.
Usually a XP CD which is not at SP2 (Service Pack 2) level, but a prior one.
To make yourself an XP SP2 (or SP3) install CD you can use these instructions http://www.winsupersite.com/xp/sp3_slipstream.asp
As for your second but foremost problem, have a look here http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1978
Hope it helps
Stefan

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