How do I reboot Snow Leopard ?

I originally had OS 5 on my IMAC Intel purchased in 2008.  When it came out I installed Snow Leopard. Now I have a grey screen! I have tried a number of things, including a reinstall from the Snow Leopard disk.  That stopped with an error.  Then, I tried using the disk utility, but it got stuck in verifying permissions for several hours.  Unfortunately, that was my only choice--the other buttons were inactive.  Since the screen was frozen again, I had to turn it off. Now, I am going to quit for the night and try again tomorrow.  Should I have used the original Install Disk that came with the computer instead?

Making a bootable install CD will not work - if your Superdrive doesn't work, how will the CD work? Besides, the newer instructions for bootable USB drives, etc. work only with the new OS versions - you download a fresh installer and put that on the drive. Snow Leopard is not available for download.
You can clone your system to an external hard drive; however, since you have a corrupt system, that is not the best idea. You really should boot from your install disk.

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