Formatted/Reinstalled OSX Still not Starting Up

So my iMac was not starting up, so I tried all the resetting measures. SMC, PRAM, safe mode, etc. Was able to boot from the CD, got as far as erasing/reinstalling OSX snow leopard and it was almost done with restoring my time machine backup when it went to sleep and died. I restarted, it came up with finder, saw all my stuff, but it was missing random applications like iTunes. So I restarted again. Came up to finder, without my wallpaper and had the spinning wheel. Restarted a third time and it did the grey screen thing.
Disk utility couldn't repair the disk again, so I erased the disk and started from scatch again.
It booted from the CD again, installed snow leopard sucessfully, restarted, and now it just sits on the grey screen forever.
So what to do? Try the 10.4 disk it came with? or 10.5? Or do I just need a new harddrive? Disk Utility said it was verified..

I suggest you do the following:
Clean Install of Snow Leopard
     1. Boot the computer using the Snow Leopard Installer Disc.  Insert the disc into the
         optical drive and restart the computer.  After the chime press and hold down the
         "C" key.  Release the key when you see a small spinning gear appear below the
         dark gray Apple logo.
     2. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue
         button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
         After DU loads select the hard drive entry from the left side list (mfgr.'s ID and drive
         size.)  Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.  Set the number of
         partitions to one (1) from the Partitions Scheme drop down menu, set the format type to Mac
         OS Extended (Journaled, if supported), then click on the Partition button.
     3. When the formatting has completed quit DU and return to the installer.  Proceed
         with the OS X installation and follow the directions included with the installer.
     4. When the installation has completed your computer will Restart into the Setup
         Assistant. Be sure you configure your initial admin account with the exact same
         username and password that you used on your old drive. After you finish Setup
         Assistant will complete the installation after which you will be running a fresh
         install of OS X.  You can now begin the update process by opening Software
         Update and installing all recommended updates to bring your installation current.
Before attempting to restore from your Time Machine backup open Energy Saver preferences and set the option to Put the Computer to Sleep to "Never." While still in the Setup Assistant you may optionally restore your Home folder and third-party applications and support files before completing the Setup Assistant. I suggest you do that. Do not attempt to restore anything else.

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