Macbook Pro Late 2007 Won't Power On

My Macbook Pro's battery has been going for a while. It's needed to be plugged in to operate for at least a year. I shut it down last night. This morning, I tried to power on while plugged into wall, and the light on the Clamshell opener on the front will only flash while I'm holding down the button. I can hear the hard drive whirring, but when I let go of the button, everything shuts down. If I continue to hold the button, after about fifteen seconds the Clamshell light begins flickering and everything shuts off.
I've removed and reinserted the battery, checked battery status with button on bottom (all four green lights light up) checked the adapter for debris and damaged pins, unplugged from wall and replugged in two minutes later, and nothing seems to work.
Is this battery totally shot, or is there something seriously wrong with the machine? I've got a lot of stuff that I can't lose on that machine, so I'm hoping the hard drive isn't fried and, worst case scenario, if the machine is dead, I can get what I need off the hard drive and put on a different machine.
Anyone else seen anything like this before?
Thanks in advance for any advice.

Just guessing, but the flashing light may be an indicater that your RAM is bad or not being seen.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2341?viewlocale=en_US
Try reseating the RAM. If it's third-party RAM and you still have the original Apple RAM, try the Apple RAM. If your computer doesn't see any RAM, it won't start.
Chances are your hard drive and data are OK since you can hear the drive spin up.
Here is another article which may be of help:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1365
Whenever you get back up and running, buy an external drive and make a backup and keep it up to date. Otherwise you are at risk of losing everything if your drive does fail.
Good luck!

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Greetings,
I've been searching around in the forums and didn't find anyone with the same problem that have had this issue solved.
The problem started about a month ago when i accidently left the computer running out of battery during the night. The day after there was no response whatsoever, tried resetting the SMC which did help so i didn't really think of it anymore except as clumsy as i am only 2 days later the same thing occurs. Which then turned out to be a little bit of an issue becasue now a SMC reset didn't help... but after 6-7 resets and about ten minutes later it did however come back to life.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2341?viewlocale=en_US
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Seagate GoFlex (connects fine, but this device also uses wall power)
Samsung Spinpoint HDD (in an aluminum Rosewill enclosure, also uses wall power)
iPod Classic (fifth gen, 30GB), also charges
Samsung Captivate (Android phone), charges
I got this machine from the Apple store last week, when I swapped out my original purchase MBP due to a screen defect. I asked them to run a gamet of tests to ensure everything OK, and they complied (at least claimed to). I assume if I brought it back, with the drive, they would be able to test for a power issue, correct?
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2) Your logic board is fried. I seriously hope that this isn't the problem, but if it is, then it's time for a new mac.
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