Windows boot option icon disappear!

Hi, I successfully installed Windows XP SP2 with bootcamp.
I started successfully Leopard and Windows many times, then I installed VMWARE Fusion and I choose to use the fisical Windows partition as a virtual machine.
Now I can choose to start windows or leopard only from bootcamp options in the preference of leopard or systemtray in windows: pressing "alt" button at startup shows me only MacOSX System and disappear windows disk Icons....
How can i reconfigure boot option to show the windows icon too ? I don't want to reinstall beacuse it runs correctly ! it seems only a boot configuration...
The console of leopard report something as com.appl.system service xml boot options do not match...
Sorry for my bad english and thanks in advance for your help!

I guess, I have to explain more...
I know the way of selecting the boot drive( the way you mentioned)... My problem is after creating new partition with disk utility... I cann't any more boot to Win at startup. It seems that the Win startup partition is removed, but when I check it from OS in my FINDER, I can see the bootcamp partition and all my date inside..
So, I need to know how can I again activate booting option to Win at startup(or something like this)

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