Parallels/Boot Camp Won't Launch w/o CD

I have Parallels 3.0 on my Mac, but it will not launch. I've uninstalled and reinstalled several times.
When I have the installation CD in my drive, Boot Camp opens just fine. Without the CD, though, I get an error message asking me to relaunch or ignore or send to apple.
Any ideas? How can I make sure Parallels and Boot Camp launch without the CD?
Thanks,
Andrew Hollinger

I just tried using Virtual Box, but I am having trouble with that too. Virtual Box seemed to install fine, but I can't figure out how to install Windows on that since my CD drive still spits out my Windows installation disk. When I click Start in Virtual Box, it looks for and doesn't find a "bootable medium." I am assuming this is supposed to be my Windows XP installation disk, but I still have the problem that my computer doesn't recognize it.

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