Can't boot. How to get stopped 'user launched" to restart?

Hiya. I can't get Lion to boot. Here's what I've done/tried. Where applicable I have repeated these steps just to be sure my results were consistent:
1) When I boot, I can't get past the grey screen with the apple icon and the spinning spokes.
2) After reading reviews on CNET, I installed Avanti!
3) Avanti would not finish scanning and would not operate on the sketchy files it found (most just highly compressed files).
4) In Finder I used Quit, then Force Quit on Avanti, only to have it start again as soon as it closed. Meanwhile it kept opening & then crashing 2 other apps:  extEdit and Mail (neither of which I was using).
5) I tried to shut down, but Avanti stopped the process.
6) I tried trashing Avanti, but it I just got the 'moving to trash' swirly status bars running indefinitely.
7) I tried deleting sub files of Avanti hoping it would cripple it sufficiently that it would not return when stopped.
8) I did a hard reboot and opened to the same problem.
9) I loaded MacKeeper, but that too crashed almost immediately each time.
10) I tried opening System Preferences, but it too crashed immediately each time.
Here's where I screwed up:
11) I examined Avanti and thought I'd stop the parent process and reboot.
12) I stopped the user version of launchd (Quit, not delete)
13) My screen instantly went grey - no other features.
14) I did a cold reboot, and got no further than the grey screen described in #1
15) I tried a safe boot. Same result.
16) I tried emptying the PRAM. Same result.
So, I'm totally stuck. I've been all over the internet looking for the answers, but it all seems to be about what launchd does, not what to do when it doesn't (at least I assume that's what's happeniing.)
Oh, one other thing, please: This being a MAC, I don't have a boot disk for repairs. In addition, none of the built-in repairs/work-arounds work because, of course, I can't get in. So, if you think the only thing to do is reload the OS, do I have to grab all my data first? I do have access through my laptop via sharing.
Thanks so much!

My thoughts are that you can do nothing at all with the computer until you've backed up your data. After that, if you think you know a way to fix the damage without reinstalling, you're on your own.
There are several ways to back up a Mac that is unable to fully boot. You need an external hard drive to hold the backup data.
1. Boot from your recovery partition (10.7 or later), a local Time Machine backup volume (10.7.2 or later), or your installation disc (10.6.8 or earlier.) Launch Disk Utility and follow the instructions in the support article linked below, under “Instructions for backing up to an external hard disk via Disk Utility.”
How to back up and restore your files
2. If you have a working Mac, and both it and the non-working Mac have FireWire ports, boot the non-working Mac in target disk mode by holding down the key combination command-T at the startup chime. Connect the two Macs with a FireWire cable. The internal drive of the machine running in target mode will mount as an external drive on the other machine. Copy the data to another drive.
How to use and troubleshoot FireWire target disk mode
3. If the internal drive of the non-working Mac is user-replaceable, remove it and mount it in an external enclosure or drive dock. Use another Mac to copy the data.

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