Lots of Stuff Wrong--Chief Among Them OS X Won't Boot

I did the Quicktime update that came out a few days ago... When I restarted, everything went okay until the "Mac OS X" screen. It went about a half a centimeter on the progress bar in the "Mac OS X" window and then the window disappeared and I was faced by a blue screen. I tried restarting repeatedly. Same thing every time. The "Mac Os X" window disappears. The screen changes to a lighter shade of blue after a few seconds. Every few seconds, a progress wheel like the one under the apple when you first start up the computer appears, makes half a revolution, and vanishes. I have run Techtool Deluxe, Disk Utility off of the install disk (a volume had to be repaired, but as far as I can tell repairing it didn't help at all), Mac OS X Boot Utility, reset the Pram, and booted in Safe Mode as well. Mac OS X Boot Utility said that I had a memory error--the error code was "post/0/2048". Is there anything else I can do? I don't want to have to send my laptop in to Apple.
Someone said something about a "Setup Assistant" in a reply to my earlier post, what is that? Would it help?
Also, I was just wondering if any of you knew how to get a disc out of the SuperDrive outside of the actual OS?
And one more thing: I think the sound file OS X is supposed to play when it starts up is corrupted. Sometimes it doesn't play at all, and when it does it sounds like the speakers are blown out. How do I fix this?
Man, I have a lot of stuff wrong with this my computer.

Ok, going to have to charge you for this one. just kidding.
Well, first off most problems are software, not hardware, so I would address the software first. Since it is failing so early in the boot cycle I would jump to the conclusion that the OS got scrambled. It could be as simple as one file getting damaged, but what file is the million dollar question. The quick and sure way to go on this is to boot off your Apple system disk and do an "archive and install." That basically loads a new Apple OS on there and saves all the old system files in another folder (previous system).
You need to be sure you have enough disk space free to do that. I believe it will warn you if you do not. The draw backs to that are you may have to re-install some of your after-market applications, and any system customizations you did will be gone, (not gone off the disk, just not in the new system). Depends on your knowledge as to if you can get them back out of the old system or not, otherwise you will have to just configure stuff anew.)
Getting the disk out of the super-drive, try booting while holding down your mouse button until it comes out.
the system chime, not sure about that. Is the volume up too loud? Is the speaker blown? You may want to google that one.
Ok, good luck on that, you have some work to do.

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