Another blue screen startup

As far as I know I didn't put anything new on my iBook, but it now will only startup to a blue screen. I've tried running Disk Utility from the Install CD, but it wont repair. This is what it says:
blah blah...
Checking Catalog file.
Incorrect size for file temp2029816
(It should be 0 instead of 52736)
Anyway, when you repair disk it goes through the whole process, says repair completed, but the verify disk permissions and repair disk permissions stay greyed out. Is there anything I can do to get my workhorse working again?
Anyone got any ideas?
Sean

further investigation tells me this
I connected the blue screening mac to another via firewire as a target disk. the hd would not mount, but i could run the same verify and repair in disk utility, but the disk permissions buttons were still greyed out. And i couldn't mount it from there. I then tried the migration assistant, but again it couldn't see the disk.
what am i doing wrong, or what do i need to do differently?
sean

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First, see this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6232823&#6232823
It describes my situation (but without the deterioration to scrambled video)..
Client drops off iMac; it's a 1.8GHz ambient light sensor model, 17 inch. Complaint: Won't start up.
The serial number of this unit falls within the range of the repair extension program, but it is a Rev 2 model, so excluded.
I plug it in & push the power button: POST, fans, hard drive, screen comes on, grey apple, spinning gear; at the point where the "Welcome to Macintosh" splash screen would normally appear (pre-Leopard, anyways), the screen switches to blue.. And stays there forever - with a visible and mobile cursor.
Reboot, reset PRAM. Same result. Reboot, hold down shift key. AHA, I get through the normal splash screen, progress bar, to the login screen. I learn that this Mac is running 10.4.6.
So then I plug in my external FW troubleshooting hard drive, boot with the option key down, get the "boot manager" screen, select the 10.4.11 PPC partition, and it boots to the same blue screen with cursor. Wha..??
Option-reboot; select the same 10.4.11 external partition, and hold shift key. Boots to my login screen as expected. I run Disk Utility, repair the internal disk.. It's fine. Boot off DiskWarrior v4 optical disk (no shift key), it boots fine, I rebuild the directory, no problems. Boot off Tiger retail installer disk (no shift key, just to see if it would), no problem. Boot back off my diagnostic drive, won't boot without shift key.. So I do, and I run the 10.4.11 combo PPC updater on the internal drive while booted from the external. It goes normally. Try to reboot internally, same thing (blue screen with cursor). Will still boot "normally" with the shift key down.
OK.. I back up the client's user folder, boot off Tiger DVD, launch Disk Utility, re-partition the drive (it had one partition, I re-created one partition), then I erased the entire drive, writing zeros at the same time. Install Leopard normally. Reboot after the install, blue screen with cursor. Reboot with shift down, I get through the normal OS setup assistant, it creates the client's user account & takes me to the desktop.
Reboot. Guess what.. Yup, blue screen + cursor. Reboot + shift, back in, I run Software Update, 3 times, I get the 10.4.11 update & some Java updates & QuickTime & iTunes etc. and after each boot, the only way to get to the login screen is to "shift" it.
On a hunch, I go into System > Library > Extensions and drag all the ATI kernel extensions to the trash, authenticating to do so (then from the trash to the desktop), and I reboot. Presto. I don't have to hold the shift key down for the computer to boot normally to the desktop. Of course, video is unaccelerated.
I told the client the machine needs a new logic board.
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The one thing I did NOT do (and why I didn't, I'll never understand) was pop off the back & look at the logic board to see if there were any bulging or leaking capacitors..

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ANOTHER blue screen post - yes I've read the others

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Do you have at least 10% of your internal HD free?
I would suggest you do the archive and install from your Leopard DVD. An A&I will install a fresh copy of OS X while, at the same time, preserving your files, programs, and settings. The A&I should also eliminate software as an issue.
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Yes I have plenty of room, after all it was a fresh install.
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I guess it maybe something to do with the FW failure. The system maybe trying unsuccessfully to connect to any potential external FW devices. Just a guess though.
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after it installed and asked me to restart the computer a message came up that said my startup disk space was low, i checked and there was about 600mb available.
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