MAC Re-Start Failure

My late 2008 Mac Book continuously re-starts, never loading past the apple logo and gear screen. I have spent hours looking through the threads and discovered that zapping the PRAM does not work, running the fsck does not work, starting in safe mode does not work, I have unplugged it and held the power button for 5 seconds, and the icing on the cake is my CD/DVD drive keeps ejecting disks to include my OS X 10.5 disk so I can't just re-install. I do have the entire system backed up on an external hard drive but I can't access it in the computers current condition. I think I'm pretty out of options unless someone has an idea thanks for reading my issue and for your help.

You probably don't have any peripherals hooked into your MacBook, but if you do, unplug them.
Is your external hard drive bootable? If you hook it up and boot holding the alt/option key down, are you able to choose the external hard drive?

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