Blue Screen - unable to continue startup

Yesterday, I updated iTunes and attempted to update to 10.4.8. In the process, I got an error that said it was unable to update. I tried restarting but the boot sequence ended on a blue screen.
I have tried SAFE BOOT - did not work.
Boot Disk - worked fine. I was able to run disk util and it said my volume was fine and nothing needed repairing.
I can boot to Windows and run that fine also. (How sad that I bought a MAC to get away from Windows and now I have to run Windows because my MAC failed me. Bill Gates would probably like this story.)
Anyway, any suggestions would be helpful? I have some very important photos on the MAC side and I DO NOT want to loose those (a recent trip to Zion's National Park with the kidoos.)
Can I use the startup disk and reinstall MaC OS X without erasing my hardrive? Also, is there a utility on the windows side that would allow me to reach over and grab those pictures on the MAC side? I could do this and then reinstall my MAC stuff erasing everything.
Thank you for any input. I was thinking about taking it in to the store but I assume they will not care about saving my data and eventually erase my drive to fix the thing.
Jeremy
Oh, one more thing. On one of the many help pages about boot problems on the apple support site (which none seem to help me), it mentions that blue screen happens on the "launchd" boot sequence. I don't know what this means but perhaps that might help someone help me. This help page is found here.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303363

Sorry, maybe I'm just dense
here. If he can't boot into Mac OS X from his HD, how
does he download the Update and install?
David.Austin.Allen,
Thanks for the heads up, yes, I probably messed up with that one, but it was an afterthought. Saving files from Mac side was said of utmost importance.
Since it booted to the install disc [seems strange that a safe boot doesn't work since HDD accepted repairs ok], I guess I was thinking it was only a matter of time and a little fiddling, after first saving files, until it would restart to the Mac OS. [Startup disc should have been re-selected immediately following use of disk utility.]
The blue screen usually isn't all that big a deal as long as the HDD is ok, which disk repair apparently has confirmed.
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