IBook does not start up - beeps and sleep light blinks fast

Hi,
My daughter's iBook G3 800 is presenting the above referenced problems. She says she left it on overnight, open, to charge her iPod and now it is not responsive. I've tried restarting, resetting, booting from her OSX disc, all with no avail. Any ideas? Should I take to the nearest Apple store, call Apple, or ??
Thanks for your help!
Caio

According to this Apple Knowledge Base article:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58442
4 beeps = no good boot images in the boot ROM (and/or bad sys config block)
Now, we may know what the beeps and flashes mean, but I'm not savvy enough to know what to do about it. Let me call in the cavalry, okay?

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