Blue screen with black circle in upper right corner

My Mac froze. I tried rebooting and now it won't boot past the blue screen. I have a mouse pointer and there is a small black circle with three smaller blue dots inside of it in the upper right hand corner of the screen. Clicking on it does nothing.
I tried booting in safe mode but it wouldn't boot past the galaxy screen. Again, I had a mouse pointer but nothing more.
I've tried booting from the OS disc that came with the computer. It sounds like the disc is running but nothing ever happens.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Run through this list of fixes, you can't use a previous OS X install disk to fix a later OS X version on the machine.
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