After computer freezer, the computer fails to reboot

Hey,
I was LANing with a friend playing WCIII FT and the game froze. Both of us turned our computers off. He was using a MBP and his computer rebooted immediately. When I tried to reboot my mac book, the screen with the apple logo an the spinning circle comes up and the dot moves around the circle indefinitely. I have left it on for up to 10 minutes but nothing happens. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get my computer to boot up. Thanks
Pat

The game most likely froze because something happened to your machine. From the sound if it, a hardware failure, but maybe not.
Insert the Leopard DVD and reboot holding down the "C" key.
Once the DVD boots, after the language screen, in the menu, top left, under Utilities, run Disk Utility and repair HD and permissions.
If that works, reboot and see what happens.

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