How do I get out of the "no bootable device" screen?

I am doing a clean install of both operating systems and successfully deleted the windows partition, and reinstalled the Mac partition. When I got boot camp assistant started and it restarts to prepare installing windows, I am faces with the "no bootable device" screen. It says to insert a boot disk. Currently the Mac snow leopard disk is in the drive (in order to access certain disk utility functions, etc) but I can't get the disk out. I've tried force ejecting in every way and it won't eject.
So I try to boot back into the Mac partition by holding down option/alt, and it doesn't work. It just goes straight to the same no bootable device screen. How do I get out of this? Every suggestion I've seen is to hold down option and boot into Mac and I can't do that. It's almost like the keyboard does NOT respond at all while in the boot up process, can't force eject by holding keys, can't boot into anything by holding keys. Solution?

an update on this in case anyone else runs into this problem. it turns out the mac os x install disk got rubbed the wrong way or something and was mucking up my entire computer by just being in the drive. i couldn't get it out, so i took it down to geek squad and they forcibly removed it.
after that i was able to hold down option and get into the mac partition i created earlier, which i wasn't able to do with that disk in the drive.
now i can most likely get back to installing windows on my partition, however the drivers are located on that install disk...so i'm going to be looking for ways to get around that.

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