Updating tiger and mac os will not boot after download finished

Hi all.
I updated my mac tiger os on my mac book pro last friday. There were approximately 10 updates to do so i excepted them and all downloaded and i installed them all.
I was then asked to restart so i did.
On restart my mac is now stuck with a black screen. The mac boots up as normal all the keyboard functions work. the cd drive works if i insert a disk and the the mac will go into sleep mode if i close the lid. I have tried everything suggested in other threads, taking out battery, ram , doing the resets etc. I have no video output via the dvi connection so i cant put a monitor on it. I cant reboot with the cd as nothing comes up on the screen so i cant do anything. I have returned it to the pc world store i bought it from and there tec repair guys had it for 3 days and couldnt do anything with it. I have spoken to apple and they are refusing to doing anything with it as its 3 weeks outside its years warrenty. I am at my wits end with this as i now have a £1500 pound laptop that doesnt work. The laptop has never had any issues prior to the updates taking place, it was only immediately after the update that the issue occurred. If i hadnt done the update i would still have a fully working mac. I believe some of the updates were firmware updates and its taken out the video controls on the laptop rendering the screen useless. Any help would be great.
Jas.

One more question if you don't mind. I was just sitting here thinking about it, and I want to make sure i'm fully prepared when I get home later to work on this.
If I'm able to get the drive door open, and I place my Tiger disk into the drive, will the computer automatically boot from the Tiger cd when I start the system back up, or is there anything else I need to do to get the computer to boot from the cd. I was just concerned about the system not recognizing the cd in the drive with the start up issue I am having. Unfortunately I'm still new to Mac's and learning how they operate.

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