Mac Mini, OSX Leopard Server: Won't Boot

I have a Mac Mini Server that 's been stable and connected to my home network wirelessly.
But the signal strength has been so-so.
So I added an Airport Express Modem in my system and installed the adminstrative CD that came with it.
The Mini saw everything and set up the Airport Express fine and it worked great...for about 3 minutes.
I was checking the speed when it became non-responsive. I shut it down and tried rebooting, and the loading ball spun and spun and spun and did nothing.
I tried rebootijng from a regular OSX Disk and it was non-responsive.
I got it into diagfnostic mode, got a diagnostic screen showing me everything was working, but it still only shows a spinning ball forever and won;t boot.
Using an external DVD, tried using the administrative disk, but I also couldn;t get into it.
No matter what I've tried, the "loading ball" spins and spins and spins...and won't actually load anything.
Ideas, suggestions? I HATE to hit the genius's this time of year..IT'll take FOREVER!!!

Smells of a low-level hardware failure.
I'd usually suggest ordering a spare Mac Mini Server, and rolling in your backup, but Leopard is a very long time ago and jumping to Lion is going to be involved. Which leaves you to scrounge something old enough to run Leopard or Snow Leopard, and moving to that.
Or you get to brave the local Apple store, yes.
If you don't have good backups of your disk, stop working with the server Right Now, as - if this is a disk-level error - further activity on a failing device tends to reduce the likelihood of eventually recovering the data.

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