MacBook Pro blacked out/disk locked

Hello and thank you for reading this. I really have no idea what to do next, as I think I have exausted most options.
My Macbook Pro recently blacked out and I haven't been able to get it to boot/load (?) for several days now. It just stays in the grey screen with the apple on it and flickering wheel, and won't go beyond that. I installed Lion on it a couple of weeks ago.
I bought it in September 2009, and have had it updated every time I have been prompted to do so.
My only concern is that I have been eating away the memory with various media.
After reading some posts here about how to do a recovery, I tried the following:
I have been able to get into Disk Utilities and Mac OS X Installer, but I am not getting anywhere with the choices.
When I try to re-install Lion, it tells me my disk is locked, and I can't go any further.
When I try to restore the system with my Time Machine back-up (USB 1terabyte external hd), it goes as far as 'Select Destination' and brings up a screen saying 'Searching for disks...' but nothing comes, most probably because my Mac HD is locked.
I performed a 'disk repair' in Disk Utilities. The first time it said that it could not be repaired in bold red letters. I tried it again today, and this time it said the disk was repaired successfully in green letters. But, it did not give me the option to restart, so I did so after quitting Disk Utilities. Back to square one!! Same grey screen as I had before. I don't know what else to do...
I am now using my old Macbook.
I will attach pictures of the various screens in my next post if it helps.

Ok, so I tried the Safe Boot, and a grey progress bar appeared. After it filled, it disappeared and left me with the same grey screen as always. I left it going like that for ten minutes, and then gave up.
I have just booted though the Power/Option key and selected my Time Machine Back-up disk. Through there, I clicked on Disk Utility and tried to erase my Macintosh HD.
I wasn't sure which format to select, so I went with the default, which is Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
It brought up a message:
Volume Erase failed
Volume Erase failed with the error:
File system formatter failed.
I could only press 'OK'. I then tried to do same format, but with encryption. Same sort of message.
Just tried to do a Restore using Time Machine Backup as the Source, and Macintosh HD as the Destination, but again, this message popped up:
Restore Failure
Not enough space on /dev/disk0s2 to restore
So, I think my luck has finally run out...

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