10.6.8 update bricked my mbp, help!!

Hi,
I apologise in advance if this has been asked before. I have a -- I think -- 2008 make of the mac book pro 15" model and recently upgraded to Snow Leopard (10.6.3) without incident. Then yesterday I upgraded to 10.6.8 from 10.6.7 and all h el l broke loose. The download of the updates went fine and then the mandatory restart went on without a hitch and after that I did a shut-down. When I next restarted this morning, the screen was blank, I mean it was dark or without output. You can hear the start-up chord chime but otherwise nothing else happens. I tried restarting a couple of times and the screen was still blank or dark without output.
I tried inserting the Snow Leopard retail grey DVD into the mbp but it didn't help as I could see nothing on the screen. Even connecting the mbp to an external monitor didn't help.
This is so exasperating. Help! Anyone with a similar experience and hopefully a solution?

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