MacBook Pro Boot Problems Yet Again

Earlier last month, I posted a topic about how my Macbook Pro "crashed" and I ended up having to reformat my HD and it was working fine afterwards as long as I didn't install any OS X updates.
Just yesterday my Macbook started to just randomly freeze every two seconds when I went to open something, or type a simple word, or just when it started up & loaded the desktop period.
I ran the disk utility to try to verify/repair the disk and that did not work, I kept receiving the message "disk cannot be repaired, please backup, reformat and restore, blah blah" ...
PROBLEM IS.
Now when I turn it on, it always wants to boot in safe mode, but as the little bar is loading, it shuts the entire computer off before it even finishes loading (it starts to load and about less than a min later it shuts off). It happens EVERY TIME I turn my Mac on. What is the problem? Does AppleCare cover this? I've only had my Mac less than a year and already I'm experiencing problems that I shouldn't be having AT ALL.
I don't live close to an apple store, and I'm in college, so I can't just up and drive hours away to find a store.
I have an iPhone 4 and iPod Touch 4th Generation now I'm afraid to even sync it with the Mac when it is fixed because I don't want to lose everything.

Look at these data recovery tools if you aren't backed up:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html#RECOVER
Purchase AppleCare if you haven't already.  You can do so anytime in the first year.
AppleCare by phone can usually with notebooks setup a mailin to repair with as little as 36 hour turn around in the U.S.    The issue you are having may actually be a dying hard drive, or it may just need purchasing Alsoft Disk Warrior, or it may be a power supply issue or RAM issue.  As long as it is Apple installed RAM, that's normally covered under warranty if nothing was dropped or damaged by bumping.  Same with power supply.  A bad power supply in the room can cause power supplies on computers to fail.  A good APC surge protector can help protect a computer against spikes and surges not caused by lightning and some poor power.  Other poor power has to be diagnosed by an electrician. Good luck!

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