Trouble uninstalling Boot Camp

A few weeks ago, I installed Boot Camp which partitioned my drive accordingly.
I then tried to follow the steps I derived from 2 different forums to create a Windows XP boot disk from my Virtual PC disks.
I could not get this to work, so I never installed Windows.
Since then, I decided to use Parallels instead of Boot Camp. I bit the bullet and purchased both Parallels and Windows (XP Pro w/SP2 on OEM disks for $135.)
Now I'm trying to uninstall Boot Camp and running into a problem, I think.
I opened Boot Camp Assistant and selected "Restore" to remove the Windows partition and restore my hard drive to a single-partition Mac OS X volume.
I then see a swirling blue & white "peppermint" stick a cross the bottom below a line that reads: "Status: Partitioning disk...."
All seems right, except that this lasted for 20 hours with no change.
Every few hours, when I'd notice it still "running" I'd check the "Force Quit Applications" window, expecting to see Boot Camp Assistant listed as "Not Responding." Not so...seems to be an app running normally. So I thought, 'maybe it really does take this long,' and I let it go.
Checking back this morning, still no change, checked out a few forums, and I don't see this issue mentioned anywhere. In fact, one contributer made a comment to the effect that he was "surprised how quickly Boot Camp Assistant performed this task" (I wonder if he was being sarcastic? Hmmm)
So I decided to quit out of BC Assistant, relaunched the program, and selected "Restore" again. I now have my horizontal blue and white swirling "barber pole" back (what is that called?), the Status is "partitioning disk", and I'm wonder how long this is supposed to take.
Can anybody help me with this?

The restore should not take long. You've definitely got something amiss. Use Utilities>DiskUtility to look at your hard drive. How many volumes are shown, and what are they labeled?

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