Installing Windows XP on iMac MacOS 10.6

I (foolishly probably) tried to install Windows XP on my new (February 2011) iMac running MacOS 10.6. I got part way through the installation process and could not get any farther. Messages were that the partitions were not recognized or not big enough. (I had designated a 20G partition for the Windows part of the computer.) Now I cannot now reboot in the MacOS or Windows. I cannot eject the Windows XP disk from the drive. Any suggestions?

XP is not supported on your machine & 20G is too small.
To get out of the wreckage do this:
Reboot holding the option key and select OSX as the startup drive, when booted eject the cd normally then go to Apple>System Preferences>Startup Disk and select OSX. Then start Boot Camp Assistant and select 'create or remove windows partition and remove it. If asked about downloading drivers select the other option (I have disk)
If you want to install Windows it will need to be Win7, the partition needs to be 50G not 20 and you need to read the Boot Camp documentation, twice.

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I click on install windows start to install after the first boot it wil compleet the install normally this wil install the drivers and you get normal resolution ect,
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