Need help please!!!!!!! cant boot into hard drive

hi every one!!
i´m a new macbook user. it was working great, but i wanned to boot an ubuntu live cd. i tried presing "c" at startup and it didint work. so i went into macosx an changed the boot option from hard drive to cd. i restated the macbook with the ubuntu cd and it worked. i just wanned to see how it runned linux, i didint move with linux anything from the hard drive. i restarted, ejected the ubuntu cd and now the macbook gives me a grey screen. i tried presing "x","h","shift","option" and nothing hapens. i can hear the sound when i turn on the power, but i cant see the grey apple and the loading spinning wheel. after a few seconds a message apears "no bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key". i didint move anithing else from the macos x 10.4 just that option. i also didint install anything from linux(just a live cd).dont have any macos cd.
how can i get back into macos x 10.4????????
please help!!!

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