Blue screen without login options?

I've had this MacBook Pro for at least 5 years now. Despite a few hiccups, it has continued to fare well. I've also had it checked out, hard drive erased and reinstalled, etc., many years back when it leapt off a high desk and dented itself on the hardwood floor.
Recently, it's been working fine. No issues. However, this past week it included a "Guest" login with sharing privileges, which made me doubt its security. I limited access for the guest account by choosing "No access" and it continued to work fine, login okay, etc. I realize the guest account with sharing privileges may have been there due to the machine being networked to one other computer in the house to attain wifi access.
Anyway, today, as I started it up to log on, it launched a blue screen and went no further. I held its power button down to restart it and, when restarted, was again met with a blue screen and without the login screen i usually see.
Does this mean it's dead, deeply troubled, or is it something to do with the change I made to that mysterious guest account - despite never seeing the guest account at login screen before?
Hoping this is not the end of the road for it. Help!
Thanks - any info extremely appreciated.

Still stuck. I've now followed instructions OrangeMarlin suggested above mentioned at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.7/en/mchlp2887.html and pages related, and also:
Tried to boot in UNIX by command-S ( http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.7/en/mchlp1720.html ) which allowed it to run through a start-up in white on black UNIX screen, but, being totally ignorant about using UNIX or performing checks through it, I didn't actually command it to do anything, except to "reboot" which did allow it to restart but, as usual, again didn't fully bootup and stopped at a bluescreen after chime and gray screen with apple logo, but without progress indicator, progress bar, or periodic flashing in the bluescreen I'd mentioned in above post.
Tried suggestings about restarting before resetting PMU through instructions at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1431 using keyboard command steps for force quit, restart, force shutdown, but it wouldn't force quit anyway, and I didn't go on to try resetting PMU aware I could make a bigger mess of things.
Tried also to command-control-P-R for PRAM and it started up, but again didn't complete and left me with a bluescreen.
It is now only blue without any indicators, flashes, changes, icons (though gray screen and apple logo still show before it turns to bluescreen) until I force it to power down by holding down the power button.
Any suggestions before I officially give up and bring it in to the shop?
Any help is appreciated.

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