After installing Leopard, spinning wheel does not stop and machine freezes

Hello everyone, I succesfully install Leopard, got the green check mark, but after the machine restarting, playing the intro movie and asking for my info, I didn't want to register at the moment.
Now I'm trying to do it and got the spinning color wheel that doesn't let me do anything.
How can I fix this.....thank you for your help...

I installed leopard a few days ago and the update yesterday.
My machine was running fine until tonight. I left it on for a few hours and when I came back it had the spinning color wheel. I can't acces the system, it's just a black screen with the color wheel spinning!
In a desparate attempt I closed the screen and it appeared to go into sleep mode so I popped the battery out. After replacing the battery, opening the screen, and powering on the computer displayed a blank grey screen with a progress bar at the bottom. Once the progress was complete it returned me to my color wheel. Any advise would be appriciated.

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