MacBook Pro Epic Fail

Hi y'all,
So just a few days ago, I had closed the lid (but not turned off) my MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard that I purchased October 2010.  About a week before this, my computer had been running fairly slow, but performance returned basically to normal after I closed a LOT of browser tab (simultaneous massive research projects were the culprit).
Anyway, I closed the lid, put it in a backpack, walked around with it for a day (but never used it, dropped it, etc.).  That night, I got home, tried to lock on from the lock screen and upon hitting 'Return' to get to my desktop, the computer froze for a good while.  Because it was totally unresponsive, I did a hard reboot (press and hold the power button).  Upon trying to restart, all I got was a gray screen on which was located a flashing folder with a question mark on it.  Checking the Apple Support page, I did most of what they recommended.  It's listed below:
- Try pulling up the Disk Utility via the Option key at startup.  FAILED.  All I got was my mouse, which could move around, but no disk utility.
- Try resetting PRAM/NVRAM.  SUCCEEDED.  Computer restarted a second time while using Command-Option-P-R and made the startup noise as was supposed to occur so I'm fairly sure this worked.
- Try booting in Safe Mode via pressing Shift at startup.  FAILED.  All (I think) I got was the Apple logo with the little gray spinning thing (not the beachball, but rather the thing that's a bunch of lines radiating outward)
- Try booting in Safe Mode with progress update via Command-Shift-V.  FAILED.  Same result as booting in normal Safe Mode.
- Try booting from the Mac OS X Install DVD that came with the computer.  FAILED.  Didn't work until I then used Disk Utility via the Option key to select the DVD as my boot source.  At this point, it started to boot, got to the screen where it asked me what language I wanted to use for the system, and had already selected English.  Meanwhile, at the bottom right of the language window was a 'Next' arrow, but this was blue as if someone was clicking and holding a mouse over it.  I couldn't use the keyboard or the mouse (besides moving it around the screen) so I did yet another hard shut down and tried to repeat the process.  This time, after selecting the DVD via the disk utility, all I got was the Apple Logo with grey spinny thing.
- Brought it in to my college's ITS facilities where, after backing up the data on my hard drive successfully and erasing it, they tried to use my Install DVD to reinstall the OS.  FAILED.  Then, they tried booting from an external Mac FixIt drive, which booted fine, but the keyboard was unresponsive, and the mouse could move but not click on anything.  They're currently still in possession of it and working to see what else can be done, but I figured I'd check here to see if this had happened to anyone else, or if anyone (someone from Apple?) could speak up and tell me what's the matter and what I need to do to mitigate this rather inconvenient (it's finals week) problem.
Computer Specs:
Mid 2010 MacBook Pro with 128GB solid state internal hard drive running Mac OS X 10.6.x with 2x2GB of RAM (factory installed; I haven't made any changes to the components that I selected on the Apple Store website when configuring my computer) and 2.4 GHz Intel processor.
PLEASE HELP DIAGNOSE THIS ISSUE?!
Many Thanks,
jkm02009

I should note that when I used the Install DVD, and I did make sure I usd the C key during startup to tell it where to boot from.  Also, with further thought, I'm pretty sure it's not Disk Utility that comes up when you use the Option key, but I'm blanking on what that is right now.  Sorry for any confusion.  Anyway, about using the Option key: I should also note that when I did use it, it recognized the CD, but my own hard drive wasn't recognized, i.e. not a possibility to select.
Again, if anyone could help, it'd be much appreciated!
Thanks,
jkm02009

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