Just lost my Mac Pro

I attempted to instal windows XP on My MacPro in 10.6.6 using bootcamp. I tried the work around for installing boot camp described here on the forums for working around bootcamp assistant 3..03,I followed all instructions windows installed, but now my macpro is a windows machine it no longer recognizes mac os on my start up drives, I have two with two separate copies of snow leaopoard. The mac pro will only boot in windows I cannot startup to Mac os using the option key, it will not see my Snow Leopard disk to start up from or my disk warrior disk, It doesnt act like a mac any more, it is like it is totally a windows box,please tell me there is a way I can recover from this,

I tried the work around for installing boot camp described here on the forums for working around bootcamp assistant 3..03
I followed all instructions windows installed
it no longer recognizes mac os on my start up drives, I have two with two separate copies of snow leaopoard.
Windows XP though requires that you use Boot Camp Assistant, it is not the same as Windows 7 64-bit where you don't need Boot Camp Assistant.
I have no idea if you installed XP on the same drive or not; or gave it full use of one entire drive.
Normally you have to remove any drive other than the drive Windows will go on. XP and Boot Camp Assistant will forever be associated with where OS X and XP are or were, in case you try to move them.
Boot from OS X DVD?
Did the drivers off OS X DVD get installed into XP okay?
I have not used XP, others have, on Mac Pro, but I would advise skipping and either using XP in a VM, or buy Windows 7 instead.

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