HELP!! update mid-install problem, computer wont finish booting!!

Hello all,
my girlfriends computer was installing the latest os update when it said something to the tune of "update could not be completed." Now, when I try to boot it, it never goes past the screen with the grey background with the simple apple logo and the loader graphic. HOW DO I SOLVE THIS?? I cannot figure this out and she needs this fixed asap. thanks in advance!

Repairing permissions worked. This mac is my first intel and i have had soo many slashed circles come up. But basically I just inserted the install disc that came with the mac, powered off the mac. held down option, powered on. waited 10seconds then let go off option then the screen came up with the option to boot from hard drive or dvd. i clicked dvd. after a min or so you get to a screen where its says to install os x. i just went to the top of the menu bar and clicked on utilities and went into disk utility and then i clicked on the startup drive, the one with the personalname(the volume one down from the actual HD) and went repair permissions. that fixed a few things and then I went to quit and startup disc in the utilities menu and slected the internal hd in this case hard drive os 10.4.11 and clikcked restart and then restart again. It restarted, it took 2 or so minutes to load and then all is fine.

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