MBP BOOT PROBLEM AFTER XP BLUE SCREEN!!

I was installing something in windows xp using boot camp and suddenly got the blue screen of death and the computer reset. Now, when I try to boot into Mac OS X the grey apple logo shows plus the spinning gray wheel under it and just sits at that. The MBP gets hotter and hotter because I can hear the fan getting louder and louder. I am close to freaking out because this is the third apple notebook I have had problems with. I returned a Macbook and a MacBook Pro already for problems. I should tell you that I left the MBP on sleep overnight and when I opened the display this morning I got a message telling me to hold the power button to shut down the computer. It showed it in different languages so I guess it was a kernel panic. Has anyone had this issue before? I have tried resetting the PMU and the PRAM but no luck. Please help me as I don't know what to do anymore!

I simply reinstalled OSX

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