Help need with dire problem please.

Hi all, my 24 inch iMac has spat the dummy! I installed a trial version of Photo Shop and somehow while attempting to install the program I got a weird series of screen images with the prohibition sign......never seen this one before.
Tried to do a restart, but the grey Apple screen came up with rapidly repeating logo's, 'prohibition' and question marks and others too.
I though maybe an 'archive and install' might be the way to go, but first tried all the keyboard commands to get it going, not successful!
Initially the archive and install got going OK but I decided to abort the installer and go back, restart the installer and try to get into disc repair. I thought this would enable me to delete the offending installer for Photo Shop.
Now I find I cannot get the Leopard disc to fire up. A grey screen comes up with the circulating wheel, but no boot up. I have Disc Warrior, but this disc also is not recognised.
I have tried all this several times to no avail. I have everything backed up to my EHD. Cannot access this either at the moment. Thank goodness for my MacBook.
Can anyone shed some light on this problem. I would be most grateful if you could.
Ron Begg, Australia

Since your startup volume install was aborted, your disk never got "blessed" as a startup volume, that's one reason why your running into so many problems.
Also you might be "locked out" of the volume due to install abort.
Do this First -
Restart with the Command and S keys held down (single user mode)
and enter the following commands
(one at a time - pressing return after entering them):
mount -uw /
chown root:admin /
chmod 1775 /
again at the command prompt type:
/sbin/fsck -fy
Repeat fsck until no errors found.
Once fsck has run successfully-
again and lastly at the command prompt type:
reboot
If everything was successful, you should be able to get your
Leo install disk to boot or anything else you would like to try.
Kj

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