How do I get past the empty blue screen?

I keep getting the empty blue screen. I have tried starting up in Safe Mode only to wind up with the same blue screen. Tried starting up with iMac install disc only to wind up with the same blue screen. Additionally it has decided to keep the disc. The problem started with a poweer outage and an apparently bad battery in the power back up. Although I have the Apple Care Protectiion Plan, i have not been able to get in touch with them. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. I have wasted the last four hours only to wind up "blue". At the moment the iMac is in the grey apple screen with the gear rotating, the install disc 1 is still in the drive. it has been in the screen for the past 20+ minutes..HELP
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.3.5)

Hi Balmung,
see:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh2235.html
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106464
Cheers
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