Corrupt OS X - Please help

I have a 10 week old Mac Pro that just went into cardiac arrest.
I hope someone can help here as I have done some critical work since my last back up 3 weeks ago.
Two things to confess first. 1. I have 10 weeks of Mac experience. I am fairly technical on Wintel machines, but just started converting to Mac after years of harassment from a friend. 2. I am an idiot. Read more for details.
Here's why I am an idiot. I took a brand new system and ran a maintenance utility, called Mac Janitor. I am not sure that this is what caused my problems, but it is the only thing I have done to really expose the OS. This was about 1 week ago, or more.
Anyway, over the past 48 hours I started seeing everything periodically lock up. I would be working on simple tasks (in ichat, email, firefox) and everything would freeze. I had mouse control, but could not do anything...I did a hard reboot. This happened 3-4 times in the last 48 hours.
Then the real problem began. I will try to explain this next part to the best of my ability. The last time I did a hard reset, I got the start up tone, then the white apple screen, then the Blue screen; however, before it asked me to authenticate (just after it said "starting OSX"), the window went to a command window like view and started screaming through "code". The it came back to the blue screen, which it never gets past.
The interesting thing is that the next two hard rests I did went though slightly different sequences on the black screen, but both ended up stuck on the blank, blue screen.
Apple support said that it looks like the OS is corrupt, but I an not 100% certain that is correct. They made this assumption after the disk utility tossed an error.
I am not a developer, but it looks like i just cannot connect to my profile. Is there something I can test or is corrupt OS the definitive answer.

Boot with the install disk (restarting, holding down the C key), select your language, and, when the menu bar pops up, select Utilities->Disk Utility and repair the disk and permissions. If Disk Utility comes back clean on the repair disk action, quit Disk Utility, Utilities->Startup Disk, select the HD, and click Restart. If you get the same problems, then restart again, booting with the install disk, and do an Archive & Install, saving user and network settings, installation.
If Disk Utility can't repair the disk, you'll need something like DiskWarrior to fix the problem.
Since you're a newcomer to the Mac, after you get back up and running, peruse Switching from Windows to Mac OS X and Basic Tutorials on using a Mac.

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