Laptop randomly wont boot and randomly freezes. (w/ pics)

I am having some serious problems with my Mid-2007 flavor Macbook Pro. It started after I had not charged or used it for about a month while on winter break from school. I got back and let the battery charge fully before I tried to turn it on. I turned it on and was greeted by this scary looking screen.
http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/3213/dsc0001uc7.jpg
It originally would also give me problems trying to boot windows as well.
http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/1606/dsc0008nx8.jpg
But would eventually allow me to consistently boot windows and sporadically boot OSX. Windows seems to run pretty smoothly but OSX will run for up to an hour or two (usually less) before doing something like this:
http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/2329/dsc0002gw1.jpg
I have more success booting in single-user mode but that screen sometimes looks like this:
http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/9997/dsc0007aw2.jpg
I am guessing it is some sort of hardware problem and I am planning on being a very poor person soon, but would a Leopard reinstall serve me any good? Tried to document the weird screens I have been getting as best as I could, but if you need additional pictures, my computer has been freezing enough to get many more so just ask. Thanks for any help.

1. Mid-2007 flavor does not tell anyone the model. Indicating the GHz does. In any case:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377

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