After re-creating user account setup stops at blue screen

Yesterday when I restarted my Mac the Darwin/BSD black screen came up. I tried loggin in but nothing would happen. I then followed these directions posted on a forum http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1699839#1699839:
Start up in Single User Mode and type carefully:
/sbin/fsck -y
Repeat the above until it says your disk is OK. Then:
/sbin/mount -uw /
cd /var/db/netinfo
mv local.nidb/ local.nidb.bad
ls -ln /Users
This last command will give you one line for each user, plus one for the "Shared" directory, which doesn't interest us. Each user will have a line like one of these:
drwxr-xr-x 29 501 501 986 Jan 17 18:38 michaelc
drwxr-xr-x 14 520 20 476 Sep 10 2004 jdoeThe second numeric field (501, 520) is the user ID (UID) and you need to list the uids against the shortname s given in the final column. Make sure you get the name right for UID 501! Then continue with
reboot
After following these directions my Mac restarted and came up with a screen that asked what language I wanted to proceed in. I chose English and then was brought to a blue screen with only my mouse cursor. I proceeded to follow these directions that were on the same forum:
You need to escape the spaces in the folder name, so type carefully:
cd /System/Library/CoreServices/Setup\ Assistant.app/Contents/MacOS
ALL ON ONE LINE even if it wraps in this post.
You may get "No such file or directory" just doing this. If not, type
ls -l
(those are both lower case 'ells' by the way). You should see something like:
total 40
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 18264 Mar 28 2005 Setup AssistantThe first line doesn't matter, do you have the second line?
I saw the second line but did not know what to do after that. I have looked on many different forums and even called Apple support and no one can seem to help me.

Okay this is what I see:
total 56
-rw-rw---- 1 root admin 2226 Feb 19 23:20 Exited process.crash.log
-rw-rw---- 1 root admin 4389 Mar 17 18:28 Language Chooser.crash.log
-rw-rw---- 1 root admin 15298 Mar 16 20:22 mdimportserver.crash.log
after tail -20 /var/log/system.log:
Mar 17 19:26:24 localhost kernel[0]: Extension "com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyEcventDriver" has no kernel dependency.
Mar 17 19:26:24 localhost kernel[0]: Jettisoning kernel linker.
Mar 17 19:26:24 localhost kernel[0]: Resetting IOCatalogue
Mar 17 19:26:24 localhost kernel[0]: GFX0: family specific matching fails
Mar 17 19:26:24 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 1
Mar 17 19:26:24 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 2
Mar 17 19:26:24 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 2
Mar 17 19:26:24 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 2
Mar 17 19:26:24 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 2
Mar 17 19:26:24 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 2
Mar 17 19:26:24 localhost kernel[0]: NVDANV50HAL loaded and registered.
Mar 17 19:26:24 localhost kernel[0]: GFX0: family specific matching fails
Mar 17 19:26:24 localhost kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: 3
Mar 17 19:26:24 localhost kernel[0]: ath_attach: devid 0x24
Mar 17 19:26:24 localhost kernel[0]: GFX0: family specific matching fails
Mar 17 19:26:24 localhost kernel[0]: Override HT40 CTL Powers. EEPROM Version is 14.4, Device Type 5
Mar 17 19:26:24 localhost kernel[0]: athdescdmasetup: tx dddescpaddr = 0xd2de000, length 0x46500(288000) bytes
Mar 17 19:26:24 localhost kernel[0]: athdescdmasetup: beacon dddescpaddr = 0x32a4000, length 0x90(144) bytes
Mar 17 19:26:24 localhost kernel[0]: mac 12.10 phy 8.1 radio 12.0
I know that I have probably screwed up pretty good on this one because I rushed into finding ways to fix this without really reading into it. I would really like to be able to recover my the files that were on my hard drive but I know that may be impossible at this point. I also do not have the discs because I left them at my college and I am currently at home. Other information that may be useful is when I start up in single user mode I get a few lines that look like this:
Extension "com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyboard" has no kernel dependency.
Extension "com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyEcventDriver" has no kernel dependency.
localhost:/ root# CSRHIDTransitionDriver::probe: -s
CSRHIDTransitionDriver::probe booting in single user .. do not match
Again thank you for any help in advance.

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