I did a silly thing - Boot Camp

Hello,
I need to begin this question by stating that yes, I did a very silly thing.
I installed Boot Camp, because I wanted to use Windows XP and it was running a little too slowly in Parallels Desktop with some more graphics-intensive programs.
But I missed, several times, the notice saying that I needed to have a CD with XP2 already on it. So, I tried to install my Windows XP Home, and then everything came unstuck.
What I did is this:
- Updated both the Boot ROM and S-something firmware to the latest versions
- Ran Boot Camp, created the drivers DVD, followed everything else carefully
- Inserted my Windows XP Home (not XP2) CD when requested and restarted
- Let Windows XP do its thing, until the point it asked me to restart
- Windows XP setup booted back into the installer, as I was not able to remove the CD during the reboot
- I quit the installer rather than reinstall again
And now I find myself with a completely un-bootable iMac.
When I start it up, I get the 'dong' sound, the screen turns white, and absolutely nothing else happens.
I have tried the following, to no avail:
- Holding down 'option' while booting, I get a mouse pointer to play with for about thirty seconds then it freezes up
- Holding down Apple-S, Shift, C, D (with the bundled Mac OS X 10.4.7 disc inserted) - nothing happens at all
- Begging on my hands and knees in front of the impassive white screen
- Trying to boot from Mac OS X disc, Windows XP Home disc, Slackware disc
My dreaded suspicion is that I have somehow fried the BIOS to such an extent that it no longer looks at any hard drives or even the optical drive for booting.
My hope is that I haven't, and there is something I am overlooking (certainly not the first time).
Are any of you fine people able to shed some light upon this situation?
Thank you very very much in advance for any help rendered.
Toby

Hi
Not everybody here has Bootcamp on their computers. Maybe you should ask people who have more experience, here in the Bootcamp Forum
Steve

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