Mac Pro boots into Vista upon startup, not OS X?

Hi,
I installed Windows Vista on a second hard drive on my Mac Pro but for some reason it insisits on booting into windows every time i start or restart my Mac? Tried setting the startup disk to OS X but it still boots into Vista! I have to hold down the alt key to select which one to boot into. Is there a way i can fix this or at least force it to come up with the OS options by default rather than holding the alt key?
Thanks.

Zap PRAM/NVRAM uses P + R along with CMD + OPT
If those NTFS drivers mean nothing, means you haven't installed either.
They allow OS X to write to NTFS.
And you have Boot Camp 2.1 installed.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238
http://www.geocities.com/texas_macman/pram.html

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