Mac mini 2010 start up stuck at greay screen

Just purchased a brand new Mac mini this past weekend. 2.4 GHz, 320 hard drive. Updated to 10.6.6, migrated files from an eMac. Everything was working fantastic. Then played a Star Trek game (Elite Force II) and the disc froze. Had to shut down. Couldn't get the disc out at first, then restarted and held the eject and disc was out but would not start up past the grey screen with Apple. Ran disk utility from install disc, said drive was fine. Ran permissions repair, repaired whatever needed, re-ran disk utility again, no problems found. Ran Apple Hardware test, no problems found. Thought of re-installing OS X 10.6.3, won't allow me to (I assume I have to erase the disk then install). Stuck in grey, can anyone please help. Thanks!

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
migrated files from an eMac
That's the problem. You can't use the Migration Assistant reliably from PowerPC to Intel. See this tip on how to do it:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=435350&tstart=10
I would boot using the startup manager the 10.6.3 disc and erase and install, and try again using the instructions above.

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