Help! Boot Camp Trouble, Cannot Get Back To Hard Drive Contents

Ok, I have a 24 inch iMac running Leopard, and today I tried to install Windows XP. I opened Boot Camp and partitioned my terabyte drive, giving 40 gigs to Windows. I inserted the XP Installation disk and waited for it to install. It did, and when it tried to run Windows, it said there was an error. It went to a black screen, asking to run it normally, or in safe mode. I tried all of the choices, and nothing worked. I got stuck.
I inserted my Tiger install disk (the one the computer came with), and booted from that. It asked to install, but I was worried I'd erase my hard drive. Instead I installed Tiger to an external hard drive, and booted from that.
On the desktop my internal drive shows up, but when I open it, it only has the Windows components. And it says it's only 426 gigs.
So now I don't know what to do. My Leopard disk is at work, so I assume I need to install that first, but I'm worried I'll lose the info on my hard drive. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

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