First Charging, Now Booting Issues

I purchased a used, mid-2007 white MacBook on eBay from a reputable seller in mid-May 2009. It arrived while I was on vacation and then came home very sick. I used it very little before leading a trip in mid-June and it seemed to be working okay. It looked like a fresh install of 10.5. I was waiting to start using it full-time until returning from my June trip so that I could migrate my files and programs from my MacBook Pro.
I first had an issue with the battery not charging when plugged in early in June. I found directions to reset the SMC and that did the trick. However, when I returned from my trip in June, shortly thereafter it stopped charging again and the SMC reset did nothing. I read that it could be a bad battery (although the cycle count indicated it was nearly new) and set my mind to visit the Genius Bar soon. I was able to run the MacBook with it plugged in (battery not charging; system running on the AC power) and so was not in a rush.
Last night I tried booting it up. The hard disc sounds like it is spinning, the white LED is lit, but the screen remains black. No start-up chime (although I may have muted the volume during my previous use); no grey screen; nothing. I powered down by holding in the power button. I tried starting up after removing the battery and leaving it plugged in to the wall. I tried resetting the SMC. Each time it sounds like the hard drive spins up and keeps spinning, with the white LED coming on (solid, not blinking), and the screen remaining black.
Suggestions?

Unfortunately, when you purchase a used machine from eBay (or anywhere else), you don't know the complete history of the machine. The machine may have been dropped... liquids may have spilled into the system... any number of things can happen that could cause intermittent problems.
As you indicated that the machine is running fine in Windows under BootCamp, the problem sounds like an issue with your OS X install (although, you can't rule out a hardware issue). You mentioned that it looked like it had a fresh install of 10.5 on it. Did the seller provide you with the original install DVDs? It is possible they used an incompatible version of OS X. If they used a version that was older than your machine, there can be some hardware incompatibility issues. If they didn't provide you with the install media, they may be using a single copy of OS X to install on any machines they are selling.
For starters, we just need to establish if you have the correct OS X installation and the only way to do that would be to do a clean install. OS X will generally not install on a machine that it will not support... but very often people that sell any volume of machines will just image drives and pop them in.

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