Installed windows 7 with Boot camp and now cannot get back to OS x x

Have installed Windows 7 with Boot Camp on a 20" 2006 iMac running X 6.8. Now cannot get back to original OS. Tried Snow Leopard in drive and holding c and various other keys  at start up but still Windows. Any ideas?

Boot Using OPTION key:
  1. Restart the computer.
  2. Immediately after the chime press and hold down the
      "OPTION" key.
  3. Release the key when the boot manager appears.
  4. Select the disk icon for OS X.
  5. Click on the arrow button below the icon.

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