Macbook always boots up in Vista ?

Dose anyone know a way to stop boot camp starting up in vista every time you turn on ?
Thanks Matt

Change the startup disk from the Startup Disk pane of System Preferences in Mac OS X or the Startup Disk control panel in Windows.
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My Macbook in the shop getting repaired for the RSD problem. I pulled the 120GB HD I had installed and put in the factory HD when I sent it out.
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Current GPT partition table:
#      Start LBA      End LBA Type
1             40       409639 Mac OS X HFS+
2         409640    487127591 Unknown
3      487127592    488397127 Mac OS X Boot
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Partition at LBA 409640:
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