Blue screen and corrupted icons with 10.5.7

Hello.
I installed 10.5.7 update, and it seemed to go fine, but yesterday night it froze and got all pixelated while i was watching a movie, and today i doesnt want to log on...
in verbose mode startup it freezes at some xxxResponder line (never saw that before...)
and if it DOES manage to continue, I just get a blue screen with some black boxes and the icons are all funky and pixelated ???
Help!

Ok... really strange...
The install disc did not want to boot, gave me loads of failures and errors... and then just gave me a blue screen...
I needed to do some urgent work, and so I accessed the vista partition...and that worked (?!?)
...after switching off the computer, and restarting ... it booted successfully and just gave me an error report to send to apple... ? right.... whatever, as long as it's working again...

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