No Windows Icon in Startup Disk Pane, Can't Restart

The other day the Windows XP icon that I usually select in the Startup Disk Pane wasn't there. It's back now after a reboot, but the reboot was also a problem. I just got a grey screen at first, then I restarted again holding down the Option key. After a long time, the Mac OS and Windows volumes appeared, but when I clicked on either one, nothing happened. I restarted again the the Leopard installation DVD inserted. With the Option key held down again, I got the Mac OS, Windows, and Leopard DVD showing up. I now was able to select the Leopard volume and it booted fine. This whole scenario has happened a couple of time now. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you

Repair Mac OS partition from your OS X DVD (another hard drive with OS X would be even better - and a backup).
Same for Windows, Boot from CD/DVD and do system repair; safe boot if you must; and tell it you want to run CHKDSK next time you startup.
Also, system file checker for Windows:
from cmd.exe sfc /scannow
Disk drive or the volume directory for each, sounds like might be corrupt or that the drive itself could be failing and not spinning up and taking too long to mount. Could be a bad block or something else even.

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