Headache of  a Problem.  Trying To Reinstall

I will give a rundown of what has happened to date. Last Sunday, I booted up my mac (macbook pro) and it wouldn't boot into osX. It gave me a command prompt that was blinking erradically and I wasn't able to type anything either. I got very nervous, popped in the osX installation cd and checked out disk utility. It seems that all my data is still on the hard drive (which I will try to do anything to save alas I have no backups) and I was able to repair the permissions but it would fail on disk repair each time I would try to run it. Yesterday I ran the disk utility again, and the disk repair worked, but my mac still wouldnt boot up osX. But now after the computer has been turned on, I get a command prompt and my current directory location, and I am able to navigate my system through command line. I went to the apple store today (I was moving from last Sunday until today, as to why I was not able to resolve this sooner) and they told me to do an 'archive and reinstall' through the installation disk. Tried it, no luck. The installation keeps on failing.
I am really at loss what to do, being able to somehow save my data and to get osX up and running again. Any suggestions? I really thank anybody who can help me out.
Also, what is the command to eject cds?

If Disk Utility gives the disk a clean bill of health, then there's nothing wrong with the directory structure, which is what DiskWarrior excels at fixing. I can't emphasize enough having a bootable backup/clone. Mitigates a lot of problems and is constantly recommended.
See
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106941
http://www.macmaps.com/upgradefaq.html
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/installswupdates.html
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/backuprecovery.html
BTW, DiskWarrior costs about the same ($100) as an external HD.

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