Blue screen won't go away...

Hope someone can help me... I started installing a printer driver but it got interrupted and then the machine went unresponsive.
Now I can't get out of the blue screen with the grey spinning thing.
Safe mode seems to put me in the same blue screen with the same spinning thing.
The disk seems to be fine and the permissions are fine when I book from the system disk and run Disk Utilities.
I see some of the help here talks about a restore... is that the next step? I've tried some other things like zapping the pram. I can get to Open Firmware and I guess a terminal via the install disk. Something said it might be a startup item (which the printer is) so can I turn those off from the terminal?
Help!

And now I'll sort of answer my own question... No I'm not fishing for points... but hey, if this helps someone great.
Down inside this article http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106464 it has a systematic set of things to do. Can someone tell me how to put the great little links in here?
A few things I found... first off,"booting to single user mode" is done by holding down the Apple & s keys. There's some other ways mentioned but they didn't work for me. This gets you to the black screen where you can do things if you type that mount -uw / (making the / and everything write enabled) The prompt in the single user mode screen says to type "/sbin/mount" and the article says just type "mount" so I'll guess that these are equivalent. The article has quite complete instructions, including the Returns and reminders for where the spaces go... But they fail to tell you that you need to force quit (hold the power button down) and I think it would be good somewhere to tell us how long we should wait for a spinning gear thing.
Anyway, I was all the way through step 8... the "Affected user" doesn't make a lot of sense if you have several and you can't log on at all and you had more than one logged in when you went down. I guessed (maybe correctly) and that desktop now needs to be redone.
Well, all of this is still better than the Windows like, just reload the OS.
OK so now I'm off to do a backup and read more preventative type stuff...

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