IMac bricked after enabling CD/DVD sharing in 10.5.2

After upgrading my aluminium 24" iMac to 10.5.2 I enabled CD/DVD-sharing just for the heck of it without getting round to trying it before trouble set in.
Later in the evening, apps started freezing for whatever reason and I decided to reboot. The iMac now hangs at the grey apple with a spinning gear below. Repeated restarts, resetting PRAM and power management make no difference.
Starting from the install DVD (c held down efter chime) has the same result: Acres of grey with apple and spinning gear. So no joy there.
Starting in target mode is possible - and amazingly, the install DVD still in the iMac turned up om my other computers' desktop
Running Disk Utility on the iMac's disk returns an error: "incorrect block count for file pcscd.pub (it should be 16 instead of 17)" which DU then claims to fix.
But no luck. Back to grey.
I can start the iMac in single user mode. fsck returns the same incorrect block count error and also claims to fix it, but after mounting / and exiting it loops and keeps returning an indecipherable (to me) error message. I'm away from the iMac right now, and I can't remember what it was ...
I have good backups so I'm quite prepared to wipe the **** thing and start over. But I can't get to do that: It doesn't see the install DVD, and with the iMac in target mode, the 10.5 installer (retail version) run from my other mac won't install on the iMac.
I'm guessing it's not a disk issue but some EPROM parameter connected with the CD/DVD-sharing that's the culprit.
Any ideas?
Message was edited by: Peter Plys

You're quite right. And it would be in the spirit of the community and all do to just that and report back. But after finding that my backups - though complete - are not as well-ordered as I would have liked and at present being halfway through reestablishing a workable status quo, I'm no gonna bother . Sorry.
This way, I'll also know - if my iMac goes belly-up again - that the problem is probably caused by something else.
/P
PS: I'm kicking myself for not thinking to try safe booting before doing the big wipe.

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