Stuck on blue screen

My MBP 13' was working perfectly fine all this morning and then all of the sudden I got the rainbow spinning thing and it froze up. I couldn't do the force quit or anything. It shut off on its own and when I re-boot it makes all the normal noises but gets stuck on the blue start up screen before the log in. I called Tech Support and did all of the restart things that they tell you to do. Is there any other suggestions before I drive 30 minutes to the nearest store for my appt. tomorrow.
Also, generally how long will the store keep my computer for and will everything on my HD be lost? I am a college student and I have all of my important documents saved on this comp.

Have you tried booting your machine in safe mode? If not, just hold down the shift key when you power up your machine and see if it boots. Concerning your data, I'm not too sure how long your machine will be kept for but I think it would be a good idea to try to get those documents backed up. If you can't boot the machine at all, try running it in target mode.
If you boot into target mode, it pretty much turns your machine into an external firewire drive that you can connect to another Mac.
You can boot into target mode by holding down the letter "T" when you turn your machine on.
If it works correctly, you'll see a firewire icon on the screen of your mac. This is when you would connect it to another Mac and it should show up on the desktop as Macintosh HD, but with the symbol showing it is an External Firewire drive. This would be a good way to get those files off of the hard drive and have them backed up to another external hard drive or burned on to cd's or dvd's.
Hope all goes well for you.

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