Installed latest Safari update, now iMac won't boot?

OK, I'm baffled. This has never happened before. I was using my machine just fine this afternoon. I got a notification that new software was available and I checked and it said it was a safari update. So I downloaded and chose to reboot later when I finished all my work and closed a bunch of items down.
I went upstairs to eat dinner, and came back down expecting to see the machine up and running. Uh-Uh. So I held the side button down until it beeped and then released it. Heard the "ta-da" and the black screen turned light gray but no slotted pinwheel. It stays right there. I tried pulling the plug for 10-15 seconds, same deal. It stops after the musical intro on the gray screen and never gos further.
Is there any way to force-boot the system? Is this what some people refer to as "freezing" or planned obsolescence? I bought an iMac because I was tired of fighting with PC hardware, OS's, and viruses. I would hate to believe that Apple has sunken so low so as to plan the early death of this marvelous machine. Its shameful that I have to use an old PC to get on an Apple Support site and ask about what's wrong with my Mac. At least with the PCs you can easily rip them apart and replace bad components. Here I'm trapped in Apple's all-in-one don't you dare take it apart design.
Hopefully there's a easy way out and maybe someone will clue me in.
Doc

No, Apple is not out to get you.
What is most likely is simply the physics of magnetic media. From your description I'd say something untoward happened during the Safari install. Whether that was corruption of your directory or a physical failure of your hard drive or something else I can't say, but the first step should be to locate your Install DVD and see if you can boot from it. Insert the disk while the screen is grey; the iMac should still "eat" it. If not you'll need to find an external DVD drive and use that.
Assuming you have a DVD loaded and the machine boots from it the first thing I would do is run Disk Repair on your internal hard drive. You will find this in the menu options on screen, upper left hand side... I can't remember the exact sequence, but poke around, you'll find Disk Utilities, one of which is Disk Repair. Run that and hopefully your problem will be solved. If not you can resort to stronger medicine like DiskWarrior or TechTool Pro, but those are 3rd party apps that costs quite a bit of $$$. If you don't want to try repairing and your Mac boots from the Install disk you can (hopefully you've kept a backup of your data) try a fresh install of OS X, or drop into an Apple Store and see what they can do for you at the Genius Bar. Good luck!

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