Startup key combination does not work

Hi all,
Not quite sure what I have done...
Received my MacBook Pro today...
I installed 10.4.8, installed boot camp 1.1.1, set a partition of 10 GB for windows and in the partition manager of the XP setup I deleted what I thought was a 100 odd MB partition and I installed XP on the 10GB partition boot camp made for me.
Done what I needed to do in XP and tried to boot up in my Mac OSX by holding down the option key on startup. Then I was presented by a screen with a Padlock image and a password box. I typed in the only password I had created for my OSX and that didn't work. So I tried using the install disc 1 by holding down the C key while booting up, it didn't work, it just boots in XP. Also the D key and other start up keys don't seem to work. I have spend all night looking for some post mentioning this but it seems that this is the only case.
Any ideas????
Cheers

Sounds as though you may have deleted your OS X partition from the XP partition manager?
Did you activate File Vault in OS X? I've been using Macs for years and don't encourage people to use File Vault, as so many things become impossible to remedy if anything goes wrong.
Nevertheless, if you insert your Installation Disc 1 and start up while holding down the C key, you should be able to boot from Disc 1. If that can't be done, you will need to call Apple.
If you did manage to boot up from the installation disk, I would suggest that you simply do a total zero erase and start over, with a fresh installation of OS X.

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