Windows won't install and can't get back to mac os

I printed boot camp instructions. I partitioned the disk with no problem, inserted windows 7 and it came up a black screen with blinking cursor. I cannot get out of it and if I restart, it says to insert bootable disk. I cannot get mac os to come up. What can I do?

Reboot, hold the option (alt) key down at the chime, when the boot manager loads select Mac OSX as the startup disk. When OSX loads go to Apple>System Preferences>Startup Disk and select OSX as the default.

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An Option key boot is a temporary choice, and your Mac will continue to boot to Windows by default. To change that, once you're back in OS X, open the System Preferences and click on the Startup Disk icon. Click on the OS X drive to make it the default choice.

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I have Windows XP 32 bit and can not get Adobe flash player to load!!! Do not know what version I ha

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Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 19:39:16 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: I have Windows XP 32 bit and can not get Adobe flash player to load!!! Do not know what version I ha
Hi,
Could you download the appropriate version of the installer from the following page?
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/889580?tstart=0
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