Installed Leopard. Stuck on start-up screen. What do I do now?

I just bought my friend leopard from the apple store yesterday. I installed it on his computer this evening successfully. After the installation, it got stuck on the start up screen with the apple logo and the circle loading icon when it restarted. My friend and I waited about 20 minutes into the start up screen. So I panicked and try to reinstall it again and the same thing happened. I don't know what to do. Should leave the computer on the start up screen and wait till it does something? or Should I bring it to the Genius Bar and have them figure it out?

I had a similar problem. My system would hang on startup on the Apple logo.
My problem was that the permissions on my hard drive were set wrong.
"Everyone" was set to "none" and it should be "read only"
I connected my mac to another mac with a firewire cable so that I could access its hardrive (I booted up holding the "T" key). Once I had access to my drive, I selected "Get Info" on it and then changed the permissions on "everyone" to "read only" (I had to click the lock, then change my "owner" to my user name to make the changes then I set the "owner" back to "system")
Hopefully you have a similar problem.
Jorge

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