Blue screen at startup; won't start from CD

Hi,
Two days ago, my MBP froze in the middle of Skyping. I had to restart. First the grey apple appeared for a while with the grey spinning wheel, then a completely blank pale bue screen. I started in safe mode, which worked (though no internet), but a restart led to the same blue screen. I cleared PRAM, no luck. Since I'm traveling and don't have my system disks here in Germany, I bought a new copy of Snow Leopard, but the laptop will not start from it. (Pushing D at startup does not lead to the hardware test either.) The disk is now in the computer and eject does not work.
I have access to a Mac mini whose CD/DVD works, though I don't have a firewire cable here. Anybody have any ideas?
Thank you.
Michel

A purchased Snow Leopard will NOT include the hardware test, or run it, unless it is from the original prebundled discs that came with the Mac. Furthermore, the retail Snow Leopard will only boot Macs that predate March 2010.
At this point, I would purchase an external hard drive and data recovery software*:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html#RECOVER
And see if your hard drive is salvageable. Thankfully MacBook Pros will boot off USB if you have the right drives. http://www.macsales.com/ sells overseas the right drives. Maybe you can find the same kind of drives where you are at.
Never travel without a backup plan if you are going to bring your computer along.
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

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