Blue Screen Freeze, Not related to the old one?

I recently bought my Macbook Pro 15 inch (early 2008 model) in april of 2008. I have had it for the greatest year of my life. Though today, i had my first problem with it. I was online with about 4-5 applications running (normal) and it froze. The pinwheel showed up. I just thought to myself that it would be a regular restart and reboot kind of deal. So i pressed the button and it shut off right away. Usually i hold it for 4-6 seconds. That was the first weird thing. I start up my mac again and it won't start up. It freezes at a dark (in lightness) light blue screen. It gets to the part where it shows the apple but won't bring me to my login access code. I tried removing the battery and putting it back in. I tried holding option. I tried holding the power button. I tried holding C and i tried to wait. I left my house around 2pm for work and got back at 1am and i tried it again. It still is doing the same problem. I do not know what is wrong. This mac is my baby. I need any suggestions or advice in troubleshooting this bad boy. Thank you!

Hi asd31;
Do you regularly shutdown by pressing the button?
If so there is a good chance you have managed to corrupt the disk so bad it is no longer usable.
You say you held down the C, did you have the install DVD that came with your Mac in the drive?
If not, then it was not able to start from the install DVD. I would suggest putting the install DVD into the drive and trying to start it again with C held down.
Allan

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