OSX disc stuck in drive whilst installing bootcamp.

I just did the stupidest thing I could have possibly done.
I took my Snow Leopard OSX disc that came with my Mac (I'm running SL don't worry), and put it in my cd drive and ran boot camp assistant, then partitioned 40GB of the drive for windows.  After that it said to insert my windows CD and click install. 
I FORGOT TO take out the SL disc and put in a windows disc when I hit install. 
It restarted my computer and went to a black DOS like screen telling me this.
"No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key"
It won't let me eject the SL disc, and every time I shut down and restart it goes back to this screen.  I'm stuck!!!!
I'm using my gf's mac book pro to create this thread, I hope it finds someone.

First, to get out of that screen, turn off the computer. Then, turn it on and hold the Option (Alt) key until you see a cursor in the screen. After that, choose Macintosh HD to start into OS X.
After starting into OS X, eject your DVD, and open Boot Camp Assistant to remove the Windows volume. Finally, open System Preferences > Startup Disk, and choose "Macintosh HD", so your computer will always start into OS X

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