HDD seems to be fine but cant start up OS. Blue Alternating Screen

The problem started about a week ago. There was a clicking sound from my hdd which would be followed by the spinning wheel and the screen freezing for a short period of time. I booted from the install disc and checked/repaired the disc. For the rest of the week, macbook ran well - no hanging, no freezing etc.
Last night, the clicking starting again while I was watching youtube. I waited for the freeze to be over before i shut down the computer the proper way.
This morning, macbook could not start up the OS. After the initial apple loading screen, I am stucked on a light blue screen which alternates with a darker blue screen (I assume it's trying to load the OS).
I have no downloaded or updated anything in the past 2 weeks at least.
I managed to boot from the install disc to repair disc and repair permissions and from there it says HDD fine.
I have tried to restart the PRAM (read from some forums it may help) but still stuck on the alternating blue screen.
So far, havent been able to load in safe mode.
Help anyone??
The mac store is pretty far, plus I kinda need my amc for uni so I dont want to send it in if I can help it. Should I just re-install the OS??
Thanks.

Just to update, i managed to load safe mode and it asked for my username and password.
I keyed it in and it loaded to the leopard wallpaper but then flickered back to the blue screen and asked for my username and password again.
Then there was a loud click and the whole macbook just turned off.. possibly ran out of battery? Or possible the whole thing just died?

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