IMac doesn't load any Windows Install CD

After using Parallels and finding out, that i needed more speed and 3d graphic I wanted to install windows with BootCamp. I made a partition, put the Windows CD in, pressed Install and it restarted. Now if I don't press Alt, nothing happens, grey screen and after some time restart and the same thing again. If I hold down the alt key, I get to choose between MacOS and the Windows CD. Now, if I select the CD, I can hear the drive starting to spin faster, as if it would start it up, but nothing happens, it stays on the normal BootSelectionScreen. After some time the drive stops completly. I have all updates installed, using Leopard and BootCamp 2. I tried Windows Vista Ultimate, XP Pro SP3 and XP Home SP2. No difference at all. All 3 Windows versions installed without any problem on Parallels.
Any ideas?
Thanks a lot!!!

I recently took a mac workshop, we spoke about bootcamp and parallels. Instructor mentioned that you may have to uninstall parallels to install bootcamp and visa versa. I'm very new to mac, but hope that helps.

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