Installed Leopard - Boot Camp selector disappeared

Hi,
In Mac OS X Tiger I had Vista installed via Boot Camp. This partition was also hooked via Parallels, so I could use Vista either "raw" or virtual. Very handy.
Then I upgraded to Leopard. Vista works ok with parallels, although gives strange exclamation about "ejecting vista". But what doesn't work is the boot camp selector. *It's gone!* When I boot up the computer and press alt/option, nothing happens and Leopard boots up.
Vista is there and working because it works from Parallels. And I can see the 35 gig Vista partition with disc utility.
*How to tell OS X that: "Hey, you've got a Vista, so show it up in boot camp selector."?*
-pom-

If you mean OS X's System Preferences --> Startup Disk, then there's only two options:
-Mac OSX 10.5 on hd
-network startup
In Vista I only have Parallels Tools which do not contain anything related to selecting startup OS.
-pom-

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