Set windows as startup, now impossible to boot in leopard

Dear all,
This morning i made a windows partition and tried to install windows xp in bootcamp. I had a windows partition in the past, but i needed more hard drive space so i created a new one. I thought i knew what to expect...
I just did what it said, created the partition and inserted the XP disc and it started to install. During the installation, I selected the BOOTCAMP partition and the option to not make any changes to the format. Then the computer restarted, but i got a black screen saying disk error, press any key to restart.
I was unable to find the any key, and i restarted a couple times by pressing the button at the back. Finally, I managed to eject the CD by holding the mouse button on startup and it booted in leopard again.
Then,i made a stupid mistake.
I set windows in bootcamp as my default startup disc, assuming i would be able to boot leopard at any time by pressing the option key.
But now, not only does my option-key not work and can i not reboot in leopard, I still get the disc error message from bootcamp and hance my windows XP isn't working either..
So now I'm stuck with a very useless iMac, being unable to boot in either OS.
Hopefully someone can help me with this... it would be immensely appreciated!!

Tibo86,
Have you tried putting your Leopard disk in and holding down the C key on the keyboard and then in the utilities you can select a start up disk?
Regards
Robert

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