Macbook Pro frozen during reinstall of OS X 10.8 update

Hello,
My standard 13" Macbook Pro (2012) completed the OS X 10.8.5 update and upon rebooting it froze at the silver apple screen with the loading circle for awhile and finally booted up. I was skyping and it froze up and then I couldn't get it past the apple silver loading screen. I left it like this for a day and nothing changed. I then started in safe mode, tried to reinstall and it froze, I zapped the PRAM, ran disk utility repair, and tried to reinstall again and it got stuck saying it had 33 hours left. I left it up overnight and there was no change. I plugged in an ethernet cord and tried to reinstall the update and am down to 32 seconds left on the download, but I don't have high hopes. Anything else I can do before giving in and making a trek to the apple store?
Thanks

I've been trying to reinstall from safe or recovery mode. Whichever I get to by holding down Option. My computer won't get past the silver loading screen so unfortunately I can't get to a combo update. Below are the steps I completed for a SMC reset and again I got stuck at the silver loading screen.
Shut down the computer. Plug in the MagSafe power adapter to a power source, connecting it to the Mac if its not already connected. On the built-in keyboard, press the (left side) Shift-Control-Option keys and the power button at the same time. Release all the keys and the power button at the same time. Press the power button to turn on the computer

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