2009 Macbook unable to boot in any fashion

I was recently given a broken Macbook from a friend who didn't want it anymore, and had no interest in fixing it. It's a 13.3" Macbook from 2009 with a 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of 1066MHz RAM, and an Nvidia GeForce 9400M. Since I can't get it to boot, and am not super familiar with Apple OS's (I'm more of a linux guy to be honest), I'm not entirely sure which version of OS X it's running, but from the production date my best guess would be Snow Leopard.
So now to the problem.The first time I turned it on it booted to the login screen with no problem. Unfortunately that was the only time it worked. Now when I press the power button, it goes to the gray screen with the Apple logo, and the progresses to a blank blue screen. After approximately 5 seconds the screen goes black, and flickers in a somewhat periodic manner until I manually turn off the computer. In an attempt to fix it I tried to boot it in safe mode, but experienced the same problem. Next I tried to boot it off of an Ubuntu Live USB, but was unable to access the boot menu, and was therefore unable to boot off the flash drive.
After doing a bit more research, I tried resetting the PRAM and NVRAM. I started the computer, pressing and continuing to hold the "option-command-p-r" key combination before the gray screen as per the instructions given at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379, but encountered the same progression of screens as I previously had, thus the only reasonable assumption is that it did not successfully reset. Next I tried resetting the SMC. I removed the battery, disconnected the the power adapter, and depressed the power button for 10 seconds, but this as well had no effect.
Next I tried to run fsck by booting into single-user mode. Though it booted to what appeared to be the functional single-user mode command line prompt, after the line ":/ root#" I was unable to type any commands, and once again had to manually shut down the computer. On another attempt to boot is single user mode the message
:/ root# AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: initialization complete
Broadcom2045FamilyUSBBluetoothHCIController::start booting in single user ... will wait for later
[HCICcontroller][configurePM] power parent ready after 1 tries
and another try yielded a last line identical to the first line of the above message, with the lower two lines appearing above it.
I then, tested the RAM by trying all 6 permutations of the two 1GB sticks. With each configuration I tried to boot the computer normally, in safe mode, and in single-user mode, but in all 6 configurations the computer behaved exactly like (with the exception of it spending more time on the gray screen with Apple logo during the normal boot procedure when it was being run in the 4 positions that had only 1GB of RAM rather than the standard 2GB, but that was to be expected) it had been.
Five notes of interest.
1) The power adapter she gave me with it is an 85 watt model, whereas the stock power adapter appears to have been a 45 watt version, but this should neither have contributed to my current problem, nor caused any damage to the computer whatsoever
2) The computer is unable to be turned on without being unplugged and removing the battery first. That is to say, after an unsuccessful boot attempt I must remove then replace the battery in order to try again.
3) The battery is not defective, and is capable of holding a charge
4) The screen was replaced at some point in the last 2 - 3 months
5) I have read of a similar problem occurring with Macbooks that have had a new hard drive installed, but as far as I can tell the hard drive in it is the stock 160GB one that came stock with the computer
Thank you for taking the time to read this post, and for any advice or help you can provide.

Despite nobody having answered, I'll keep updating.
I noticed today that as well as having to remove the battery each time before trying to start the computer, it also will not start if the power adapter is plugged in.

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