Added new account now beachball on login

Hi
Last night I added a new user account to my Macbook and when I clicked on 'edit' next to the user picture, the mac beachballed. After 30 minutes it was still spinning so I held in the power button for 5 seconds to force a hard shutdown. Upon rebooting, all seemed fine until login had completed, at which point it beachballed again. After a while the fans started to go quite loud, then quietened down again and I think I could hear the faint noises of the hard disk being accessed. I tried again this morning and it was still beachballing after an hour.
Unfortunately the other account I created is not an admin account so I can't go in via that to try and fix anything (?)
Oh, one other thing I did was enable 'itunes helper' in my startup applications list. Not sure what it does (sounded useful) - maybe that's part of the issue??
Any ideas would be gratefully received.
Thanks
Rich

Additional info:
I booted up in 'safe boot' mode by pressing SHIFT during bootup. I disabled (unchecked) all startup items in the accounts preferences and created another new admin account with a view to logging in using that and doing a 'repair permissions'.
Logging on with any account, even in safe boot mode, now results in a spinning beachball once the desktop appears. As time goes by, the fan speed increases, and the ball refuses to go away.
I don't have my OSX install disk with me as I am working away from home at the moment.
Any ideas?
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