MacBook won't boot after Snow Leopard Updatel

I installed the 10.6.3 update today and after the "installation complete" message and subsequent restart, my computer would load the gray screen. That's where the normal boot up would end. It would then switch to the blue loading screen followed by the Nebula login screen. But then it would loop between those two screens every 20 seconds or so. Occasionally on the nebula screen the login box would appear but if I tried to type or click anything I'd get the dreaded spinning beachball of death followed by a flicker and a return to the blue screen. Is anyone else experiencing this? I've tried booting into safe mode which does nothing. I booted from the disc and "repaired" the disc with no luck. Is here any fix I can do without having to erase and reinstall snow leopard?

Try downloading the "conbo" update and running that. If that does not work, run your install DVD without erasing the drive. That should do an automatic A&I and get you going again.
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