Macbook turns on then goes to blue screen and sits with active pointer

First of all, I have a Inter 13" macbook pro with a 128gb ssd. It has the Snow Leppard and it is updated. Now for the problem. I was working on my computer going to unzip something and the little multicolored spinning wheel come up. It just sat and sat. Well, i finally had to turn it off by holding the power button down. When it went to restart, it came to the gray screen and enede up on a blue screen with nothing on it but the pointer. I could move it around. I have been reading and have turned on while holding command shift and p and r or something like that to reset the ram. That was one idea that i have come across. It didn't work. I have went in safe mode and deleted the most recent program that i was trying to unzip. It never got unzipped, but i deleted it anyway. Still does nothing. I got in safe mode again and went to the disk utility and verified and fixed the permissions. It didn't say any were bad, but i went ahead and run the the permissions anyway. I am running out of things to think of. This is my first mac and it has been great untill now. Thanks for any help. Josh R.

Hello:
This is Apple's blue screen guidance. You have done some of it, but see if it helps.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/8963.html
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