Boot Problems - Advice?

Ok, MacBook Pro having boot problems, any advice?
What happens:
I boot -- desktop background comes in. Cursor comes in. After a while, the icon for Spotlight and the right corner (right of the time) of the top bar come in. Nothing happens after that.
If I move my cursor over the fragment of the top bar, I get the rainbow spinner thing.
If I press eject, brightness or volume buttons, I get the translucent black square with the appropriate icon.
I can boot with Bootcamp and run Windows fine, but if I wanted to do that regularly, I wouldn't have purchased a Mac (ok, maybe I would have, but that isn't really the point.)
Anyway, I'm looking for advice -- most of the troubleshooting items that I've found in Apple's support seem to be focused on hardware problems (which this doesn't seem to be), and most of what I've seen on other sites is badly out dated.
Anybody have a fix? Thanks.

Did it ever boot normally?
Until today, it had never boot abnormally.
Did you install any new software or memory just
before this started happening?
I installed some fonts last night... no new software immediately preceding this, however. Norton anti-virus, Microsoft Office, and a nightly WebKit build last week, but I've used it without problems since then.
Have you launched Disk Utility from your install disk
(located in the file menu) and Repaired Disk and
Repaired Permissions?
Not yet -- I was still in the denial / hopefull thinking phase of repair. Will do that and post back here either way. Thanks.

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hi there wonk and bonz
well mine i think u will be suspecting the psu bcos u have told me that my psu combined watt is lesser than 160
hmmm well now ia around 2am here in singapore..
no choice, i need to setup new computer for my friend , yet i have not settle my own one first...
so i just cant wait and i take allthe tools out, and modify the L11 bridge to 1.7 volt by default...
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ohh its because if i alter the voltage through the bios, it wont boot up normally , just like what others complaining about , it wont boot up when u press the power button , but after u pressed the reset button , it will boot up if u a re lucky , sometimes i have to press more than 20 times of reset in order to have it boot up
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Mobo: MSI P45 Neo-F LGA775
*Memory: 1 Kingston 1GB PC2-5300 667MHz DDR2 and 1 Dane-Elec 1GB PC2-5300 667MHz DDR2
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The parts I marked with an asterisk (*) are parts that I removed from my old rig and re-used.
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My Mac Pro keeps re-booting. Last year I had to replace my graphics card. My original card was the ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 255MB, and that is what I have now. At this precise moment my Mac Pro is running perfectly, except that it is slow and the spinning beach-ball keeps appearing. I have managed to do some work with the disk utilities, verifying, cleaning and partitioning. Some errors were found and when it was cleaned this seemed to help my Mac Pro to function properly. Although I am able to use my Mac Pro now, from day to day I still experience re-boot problems. Also quite unexpectedly my mac dictionary has an error, it closed itself down and will not open at all, I had the message to say that a report will be sent to Apple.
I have tried starting my computer with an external hard drive fitted via a USB cable, I use for back-ups. This worked and I was able to wipe my hard drive clear and replace all info from the back up I had done only a few days ago.
This worked for a few days and then the same problem started again.
I am beginning to wonder if I need to buy a new hard drive.
If there is anyone who has some answers to help me solve my problem, I would be most grateful.
Robert

When you have the beachball activity, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.
These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
          SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
          View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Scroll back to the time you noted above.
Select the messages entered from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat, whichever comes first.
Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of it useless for solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

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Hi All,
I've got that re-boot problem that seems very common but the solutions out there aren't working.
Basically the computer will turn on, chime, grey screen comes up, shortly after apple logo, and then the gear starts turning, about 2 minutes later restart, process repeats.
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