Messed up boot camp and needs to eject windows xp disc

Hi all
After partitioning hard drive for xp and then entering installation, xp refuses to install BUT will not let me eject xp disk. Thus, evertime i turn mac on it trys to install xp, fails and has to be shut down making it impossible for me to get back into mac osx. Does anyone know of a way i can bypass the installation or eject the disk before it tries to install windows? If not i'll have to contact support, but just wondering if there's a quick fix first. Pressing eject on keyboard hasn't worked btw.
Thanks a lot, Dan

Hi
To eject the disk try restarting & holding down left mouse button.
Steve

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