Restarting from Windows back to Mac sometimes restarts to Windows again

When I'm in Windows using Boot Camp, and I want to go back to Mac, I click on the Boot Camp system tray icon and click on "Restart in Mac OS X". Lately, half the time I choose this option, my computer restarts back to Windows instead of going to Mac.
This started happening after I had backed up my Boot Camp partition, then deleted it and restored it with the backup. I don't know if this is related to the problem, though.

I backed up the Boot Camp partition with Carbon Copy Cleaner. Since the backup was not bootable, I manually created a NTFS partition then restored the backup back to that partition, then made the necessary changes to make it bootable (write MBR boot code, etc.)
Yes, I did run the Windows 7 DVD to fix any startup problems, and it said that it didn't find any problems to fix. Also, I do have a Lion Recovery partition. I don't know how I can use that to fix this, though?

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