2006 PRO STUCK ON WHITE SCREEN AT BOOTUP

Thanks in advance for the help. I tried booting up my pro that had shut down after battery drained. Battery does not really hold much of a charge. After booting up it was delayed on white screen with grey apple. At one point it started up, so I stuck in CD I needed to access. Then it shut down, next getting stuck on grey apple screen and starting to shut off and on automatically, never fully booting up. Now it is stuck on just a white screen when I turn it on. I really need to get this CD out asap, and also figure out why my computer won't start.
I tried resetting PRAM, taking out battery, and starting up holding command-option O-F. Nothing is working and I am stuck on this white screen. I would love to try and reboot using start up disk but my CD is stuck in there. It has latest OSX installed.
Any suggestions?, Thanks!

Now computer works, but when I try to verify disk now I get this message:
Verifying volume “Macbook Pro”
Performing live verification.
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Checking catalog file.
Missing thread record (id = 36033032)
Missing thread record (id = 36214918)
Missing thread record (id = 36580579)
Incorrect number of thread records
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking catalog hierarchy.
Invalid volume file count
(It should be 561821 instead of 561844)
Checking extended attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
The volume Macbook Pro was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Start up your computer with another disk (such as your Mac OS X installation disc), and then use Disk Utility to repair this disk.
Any idea what I can do?
Tried to start with Mac OS X installation disk with no luck...
Thanks

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