My ibook wont go past blue start up screen

I was on the internet when it froze so I held the power button down to shut it down. Cept now when I turn it on, it acts like it is going to go thru start up, "initilization, printer settings, etc", but stops in the middle of it. Like, gets to "login window something"...and maybe "network initialization" but the bar stops and i've did safe mode, i;ve restarted it and every time it freezes and i cant even get past the blue screen. i've tried disc utility but it wont work cuz it doesnt get past the start up screen.
any ideas as to what this could be? it worked fine until i was on myspace and it froze (never happened before when using myspace) and its not working since.
thanks

Indy Woman:
I'm not one of the "pro's from Dover" but I just had about the exact experience yesterday with my G4 iBook--got to the black window, which is I think a "kernel panic." I was just about to post my question when I saw yours. Back to yesterday went home & re-booted, but this time SMARTReporter informed me that the Hard-drive was in imminent danger of departing this Earth, ie, dying. I backed up the system to external hardrive. You may have the same problem??? My iBook is one month short of three year Applecare.
Try again to shut it down & do cold re-boot--wait a few minutes before firing & maybe it will log-in--if it does try to back up your data. Call Apple if you have warranty or Try Disk Warrior--I don't have it, but that was suggested to me a few weeks back while having problems with one App--that was the only suggestion that something was WRONG.
Try to boot from your install disk & run disk utility--hold down C key while starting up--select language from installer--English--and then don't do Install--but click on File or Edit at top toolbar & select Disk Utility--did you try that?
eep
iBook G4, 14, 933 MHz, Mac OS X (10.3.9)

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