No windows icon on alt/option start

I have a new imac 24' 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Leopard
Loaded Windows XP2 in boot camp, no problem
Set default startup disk to Mac OS
First couple of attempts holding alt/option at startup loaded two icons to pick between windows or mac
Now holding alt/option at startup goes directly to the Apple side 4 out of 5 times without showing two icons. After repeated attempts on shutdown, startup with power button holding alt/option key, the two icons will eventually present. This is going to be very annoying if I have to live with this...
In addition, switching between the two operating systems seems to require the os (on both platforms) to discover the wireless mouse and wireless keyboard each time.
Thanks for any help,
---Susan

I've not had this problem myself, so I can't be sure about a solution, but you could try changing the boot OS from Bootcamp Manager just before shutting down/restarting to switch OS's, so when you're in OSX and you want to go to Windows, just before restarting, change the default OS to Windows... Not a proper solution but that's all I can think that might help - temp solution.

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