AHHH! Leopard installation gone awry, please help!

Okay, so here's what happened. I had my husband's iBook G4, and I was installing Leopard on it, with the idea that he would be happy about it when he got home from work. So I started installing Leopard. At about 1/20th through the installation, my husband got home (it took slower than I expected) and said that he would like to use his computer, and wanted to install it later. So I quit out of the installer, and rebooted to the disk. Now it's stuck on the gray loading screen with the apple on it, and that small circular loading bar, and is has been for a good ten minutes. Any advice? Please, I really need help!

If it's not too late, here is a suggestion. If you have access to another Mac (yours, a friends, whatever) boot your husbands iBook into target disk mode and copy his data before you do anything else. It's quite possible that in order to recover from the botched install, you will end up having to erase the drive and start over in which case the data will be lost. Also, after you have recovered from this, smack you "producer" husband in the head with a stick and make him go get an external drive to back up his data. Or get him one as an early C-mas gift. Shocking in this day and age to have no backups!
PS The above assumes you know how to use TD mode. If not, post back for instructions....

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