My 09 Mac mini was hacked and a password was placed making it so I can't boot to start mgr, a disk, safemkde only to login assuming I have good harddrkv

09 Max mini was hacked during download / just b4 lion install and now after thinking all good its cleaned up, well was redoing my hdd and found it boots normally no matter what keys I press, or removing ram, etc.  I no longer can boot to n e thing but grey screen with apple and it changes like its going to boot though files aren't on hdd.  how can I remove boot sect password and gain control again.  I also removed airport card and Ethernet and still they are in my computer messing with me before I attempted to wipe drive.  also loaded brand new intego complete protection for $80 didn't do n e thing and never even loaded lion cause corruption so $30 for that.....help

After removing RAM, did you do 3 PRAM Resets in a row with a wired Keyboard?

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