Did Windows XP kill my machine?

OK...
I'm a pretty Mac savvy guy. I've owned both Windows and Mac machines all my life... and I just ran into a problem that has really floored me....
Last night I went to install Windows XP Professional using Boot Camp on my Mac Mini. It seemed like a pretty basic process so I guess I wasn't paying too much attention. I formatted my partition, popped in my XP disc, and got all the way to where the installer restarts the computer.
Then Disaster.
I get the famed error "Disk Error Press any key to restart" after the line asking me to press any key to boot from a disc.
Then nothing.
I read that this happens when your XP disc doesn't give you the option to reformat the partition or something. That's fine. But I have another really serious problem.
Nothing works. No keys, no startup discs, no nothing. No key combinations will bring up a choice of boot disc, verbose mode, target disk mode, or anything. I have tried booting with an XP and Leopard disc in the actual DVD drive on the Mac Mini and a USB DVD drive. Discs that go in the machine's drive will not come out and the computer has to be cracked open to extract the disc.
With the Leopard disc in the external it spins and thinks for about 15 minutes and then eventually goes to the same "disk error" message.
I can't get it to go back to OSX. I am positive that I didn't overwrite my main partition. Even if I did, I should still be able to boot with my OSX disc or at least go into Verbose mode... right?
The machine has been running fine for over a year. It has no garbage on it and I haven't done any updates recently...
What can I do?

Got the same problem after I unfortunately choose the default option for Windows Setup ('Leave the current file system intact').
Got the message 'Disk Error - Press any key to restart'.
Happy to find this topic. But no 'old USB mac keyboard' at hand, being a newbie in Appleland.
However, after loosing a few more hair I found a helpful entry in the small booklet that came with the new MacBook ('Everything for the Mac' section 4 'Problem Solving'): Swith on the MacBook with the on/off button and immediately press the following 4 keys together (during about 15 seconds or so) until you hear the startup signal for the second time:
Command + Option + P + R
According to the booklet this will reset the parameter RAM .... and everything works fine again!!!
Don't forget to choose NTFS or FAT for Windows Setup and read the Boot Camp Instalation Guide Step 2 for more details.

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