Urgent iMac help please

OK,
Last weekend my girlfriend got a new iMac (20", 2.4GHz) and everything has been running great.
Today I went to install Bootcamp for her and everything was going well but there was an error with Windows and it would not properly install. Anyway I went back into OSX, removed Bootcamp and re-installed. I repeated this twice. On the third installation attempt I tried to boot back into OSX but the computer hangs on the grey screen. I can eject a CD by holding the mouse down but I am unable to boot off a CD (holding down the 'C' key).
If anyone has any further suggestions I would be very grateful as I am in the brown and smelly now!

Holding the option key will evoke the startup manager and let you select which system volume to boot to. If it does not recognize the disk then you might try resetting the P-RAM first then hold the C key. To reset the P-RAM hold down the Option/Apple/p/r keys until you hear the boot chime at least 3 times.
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