Last week my MacBook Pro got stuck at the apple logo.

I ran disk utility and confirmed that the HDD was fine. In the end a restore fixed the issue. However now 5 days later i have the same problem. I'm at a bit of a loss as to what the problem is. Hardware seems to check out, and the fact that a restoration fixes it seems to point to software, but i've never had a software issue like that replicate after a full on restore before. Any ideas?

The following support article is somewhat outdated. Where it refers to booting from an installation disc, you should boot from your recovery partition (if running 10.7 or later) by holding down the key combination command-R at the chime.
Mac OS X: Gray screen appears during startup

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    Mac OS X: Gray screen appears during startup

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    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1430
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    See Here  >  http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808
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  • HELP!!! My iphone is stuck on the apple logo, I already did the process of putting it into DFU mode and reseted it on itunes and its still stuck!! What do I do now?

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    If the iPhone is recognized by iTunes, restore it. At the end of the restore process, when you're prompted to by iTunes, do not restore from backup. This will eliminate corrupted/damaged files as the issue.
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