Can't start up anymore!

My internal hard drive is partitioned into two equal parts, with Panther installed on one, and Tiger on the other (for convienience, long story). Anyway, I was using Panther, and when I selected Tiger as the startup disk, and clicked restart, it proceeded to close all programs, show the blue screen and the grey spinner, but it never shut down. I had to force it to shut down, and when I started, it would start panther. To fix this, (and because I have no use for the Panther partition anymore), I decided that I would rename the System folder to System1, so that it would not be recognized as a startup volume and would automatically go to tiger. However, that did not happen. I get a grey screen when I startup now telling me that I have to restart the computer (kernel panic?).
Is there a keycode that I can press so that it goes to the other partition? It is still intact, and works perfectly, I just can't access it. Also, would it be better to us a USB keyboard as opposed to my bluetooth one?
Help please!!

1. You wrote: "(would you happen to know the windows keyboard equivalent to the option key?)."No: only Macs here at the moment. Try the key in the same physical space as on an Apple keyboard (second key from the left in the bottom row of keys). I'm not sure how the Startup Manager will work with a Windows keyboard.
2. You wrote: "It is the darker grey film that comes over the "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the Power button for several seconds or press the Restart button" . . .
Then there is 26 lines of writing, starting with :
"panic(cpu 0 caller 0x0030a500(: Unable to find driver for this platform: "PowerMac7,2".
and ending with "panic: We are hanging here. . ."You are describing the following message:
That indicates a kernel panic, specifically caused by the fact that there's no System folder on the Panther volume as I stated earlier: you wrote earlier that you had renamed the System folder on the Panther volume to System1. Bad idea.
See "Mac OS X: "No Driver for this platform" Message".
See also my "Resolving Kernel Panics" FAQ.
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
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