My Mac OS X has completely frozen...

This morning I was on my Mac, just checking facebook etc, I went to shut down all my windows and I then hovered over my finder, and it said it was not responding. I tried to force quit, and the spinning beach ball appeared. It's been about an hour since then, force quit is not working at all, and I cannot open the Apple to do a force shut down since the spinning beachball won't let me. The time is frozen at what it was an hour ago, and the battery life does not seem to b lowering
I'm at a loss of what to do, since all I can do is move around the beach ball.
Please, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

FrenchToast wrote:
you can try install a small utility called AppleJack, that will have boot in Single User mode (press the Command and S keys at the gong)
No additional utility is required to boot in SUM (single-user mode). See
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/8879.html>
However, IMHO, SUM is only for experienced users; and I should not recommend AppleJack or any similar utilities, and certainly not after one incident as the OP described. Normal boot and disk verify should be adequate; if the incident re-occurs, then Safe Mode may be in order
Starting up in Safe Mode
<http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1455>
What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode?
<http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1564>

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