Macbook Pro (2010) stuck at blue screen on bootup

I recently wiped my hard drive and went to reinstall snow leopard on my macbook. It installed snow leopard, then it restored from my time machine backup I had. It booted up and asked me for a password. I didn't know the password to the account, because I never had one set up. I rebooted into the snow leopard install cd and reset the password. After rebooting, it gets stuck at the blue screen. I've tried to rewipe and reinstall twice so far, and don't feel like doing it a third time. I've repaired the disk, repaired the disk permissions. Anyone know how to make it boot up properly? Does the fact that my time machine backups are from lion screw anything up?

you really need to get the original disks. you can get them from apple for the cost of shipping. If the MBP is <1 year old, it is still under warranty.
You can try to boot it to safe mode: hold down the shift key while booting. If that does not fix it, then I would bring it to the Apple store or call Applecare. If the computer is <1 year old, but getting close, I would seriously consider buying Applecare to get the additional 2 years of warranty. If you are >1 year old, don't have applecare, and it is a logic board, it will cost you some serious $$$.

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