Mac mini blue screen

Hi,
I'm another one with the blue screen...the other I night was surfing on the web and all of the sudden tinted gray screen appeared with multiple languages advising me that i need to restart the computer, which I did, and all I got since then is startup chime, apple logo w/spinning wheel for maybe 30secs and then it goes to blue screen. I'm using older mac mini 1.42 G4 512mb/80G and panther 10.3 I bought it in Germany, 2yrs ago so- no apple care. I've tried holding C-no go. In safe mode it would go to the blue screen and then the spinning wheel starts to roll and it stays like that for 30mins, then I've lost patience after 2-3 times. When I reboot and hold option button it would show the HD and install disc but wont start neither from disc or HD. I was able do put it in single user mode and I have tried couple of things from apple support site, but didn't work. I did the fsck and it says that everything is OK with the volume. I guess i can pull off the data to my external HD, but I would like to save machine somehow... oh, yeah at one point I did get "restriction" sign but I really cannot remember what was the key combination that I have used....any ideas?
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well after a 3-4 days of unsuccessful trying to fix the problem, today finally, I got him back to work. I had to reinstall the OS X. It didn't want to do it from my mac, so I had to connect via firewire to my friends G5, then I put my mini into target disk mode, and then I "remotely" installed OS X onto my mac. yesterday didn't work, because I put tiger on, and did the regular system update, where after that when I restarted my mac it went again to the logo/spinning wheel crap, so i had to take it back to m friend and to do it all over again. I did all the updates, works so far. Right now I am about to put back on all of my files...hopefully it will work, if not, I have hammer right next to me...

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