No Bootable Drive!?!

Okay so I deleted my partition with Windows on it and then I was trying to get the disk to be one partition... it wouldn't take so I tried verifying the disk, I clicked something else and it gave me that beachball thingy so I turned off the computer after a few minutes of nothing changing. After turning the Macbook on again it gave me a message saying that there was no bootable disk or somesuch and to put in a boot disk... I didn't know what to do so I stuck that installation disk that I got with the computer in. It took it in... and now says only that I need to insert a boot disk and hit any button but nothing happens when I hit any button and the disk is stuck. That is all that happens when I turn it on now. What now?

Firstly, whenever you delete your boot camp partition, ONLY use the boot camp setup assistant cause only it will properly merge your partition back into your OS X partition. Using disk utility will just blank the windows partition and you will still be left with 2 partitions that can only be merged back if you completely erase the entire drive. Right now the only thing you can do is insert your instal disks and boot from them (hold the option key when you here the chime and select the disk). Then open Disk Utility and run "repair disk" and see if it can fix the problem.
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