Windows Vista/ Boot Camp and Apple wireless keyboard/mouse

Could someone please outline the steps needed to make the apple wireless mouse and keyboard work with Windows Vista on the Mac. It was working fine before I installed the Mac drivers, but now nothing. Whats worse is my computer boots to windows automatically now so I can't use it at present!
All help very gratefully received.
Many thanks
Dominic

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