I cannot switch to mac side

I just installed boot camp. When I restart my computer it goes to windows thats it, it does not give me any other option of going back to my mac os x. help

Reboot your Mac while holding down the Alt-/Option-key until the Boot Selection screen is shown.
From there choose to boot into your OSX.
Dedpending on your usage you can go to System Preferences in OSX then Startup Volume and set the default back to OSX.
That way you only have to use the Alt/Option-key when you want to boot into Windows.
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Greetings,
I'm using a MacBook Pro running OSX SL at the most current level.
I upgraded from Fusion 3 to Fusion 4 (uninstalled 3 first then installed 4) after which I did the update to Fusion 4.1.2 which appeared to run fine.
Being I'm new to the Mac I installed Fusion because I need Windows-XP.
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