MacBook Pro froze. What to do?

My MacBook Pro froze while in illustrator. I had to force a shut down and now when I restart it I can't get into the computer. I see my user name and curser but when I push on anything it won't do anything. What should I do?

OS X 10.7 Lion / 10.8. Mountain Lion
Repair Disk
Steps 1 through 7
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5836?viewlocale=en_US

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