Macbook Startup

I got the first gen of Macbooks with the Intel duo core processors during the summer of 2006. Recently, I have encountered a major startup problem with my Macbook. I recently set it to sleep for the night and awoke the next morning to discover that when I flipped the LCD monitor up, the login screen didn't appear. I attempted a hard restart, but the LCD monitor didn't show the usual startup signs. I could feel and hear the hard drive start up briefly, and that would be it.
I'm wondering if anyone out in the Mac community has any ideas of what could be the problem?
Message was edited by: Eksfactor

My friend just called me from Paris and said his 1st generation MacBook Black is starting to do the same thing. When he boots up, it's verrrry slow to get to the blue screen. He can move the mouse, but that's it.
This all started after he accidentally pulled the power plug from his MacBook while it was dumping trash. After that, it just wouldn't reboot normally. Even putting in the Tiger DVD to reboot the machine and run disk utility fails.
Anyone else have any luck?
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