Trouble returning to leopard while installing windows xp

I went and used boot camp to install windows xp and everything when great, i formtted the partition to 32 GB; however, when i got to windows setup I forgotten I needed the product key and i can't find my xp disc product key. So now i just want to exit the installion and get back to my 200GB partition of mac os!
The problem with getting back is that once i restart or boot up the computer only allows me to choose to boot from the disc(xp cd) or let it run until it gets to windows setup where i get stuck on product key again!
I can't force my disc out of my mac pro , i've tried appleoption+pr and it doesn't work either......
How to i get back to just normal mac os ...?
Message was edited by: SammiOO

thank you, now i feel like an idiot for not doing that first .... = ..=

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