MacBook & OS X 10.5 No Restart after Faulty Shutdown

I don't have my startup DVD with me on this trip. After freezing up, I manually shut down the MacBook by holding down the power button for a few seconds. Now, when I try to restart, all I get is a gray screen. Not even a blue screen or spinning wheel. If I hold the power button down for 10 seconds or so, the pulsing "sleep" light begins to flash, then an alarm sounds "beeeeeeeeeep", then the hard drive fires up like a jet taking off, but still a gray screen.
I have tried to start up in safe mode, but it doesn't work. I have also held down the Option key while starting up, and that shows a logo of a file with a big blinking question mark, and nothing more.
Please help! Can I solve this with out the startup DVD or do I need to find an Apple Store? Thanks

bjp123 wrote:
I have also held down the Option key while starting up, and that shows a logo of a file with a big blinking question mark, and nothing more.
I would begin looking for an Apple Store. You will either need a 10.5 startup disk to run utilities on the internal or you may need to replace the drive.
-mj

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