Windows 7 not detected by Startup Disk Selector anymore

Good Morning,
I've updated my early 2011 15" MacBook Pro's EFI Firmware to the one that came out last week & in that process it seemed to have reset my startup disk selection for my machine. I have 10.7.3 installed aswell as Windows 7 via Bootcamp & I can still boot into Windows just fine when manually selecting it during bootup/when pressing alt etc, but within Lion's Startup Disk Selector it strangely does not appear (see image below), but e.g. 'QuickBoot' (a tool that runs in the menubar to quickly reboot into other os'es) does also detect the Windows7 installation just fine.
Similiarly, under Windows 7 and the Bootcamp installation & tool there, it now (after the FW update) says, I do not have permissions to run the tool (I am running as Administrator).
Does anyone know what's going on and how I can change the Startup Disk now? Manually would be just fine, too.
Best regards and thanks,
-Jörg

Is 'QuickBoot' native to Lion? ie, it isn't 3rd party tool.
Do both show up in Windows control panel (Boot Camp) to change the default startup system?
And do you have an NTFS driver for OS X? that can also change behavior.
You would use 3rd party NTFS to be able to write to Windows partition.
I almost never had Windows show in OS X's Startup Disk c.p. but always worked from in Windows.

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