Need Major help please - mac won't get passed apple screen

Please help I have an assignment due in midnight tonight and my mac has just crashed. When I switch it on it loads the screen with the apple icon on it and with the animated turning circle but that's it. It doesn't do anything from there. Please give any advice you can.

No I don't have a backup at all since my external HD broke. I can go into the leopard install setup with the disc. I have tried repairing disc with disk utility which it says is successful. It then still won't work. On trying to repair disc permissions it comes up with an error 'First Aid Failed - the underlying task reported failure on exit' comes up. During repairing disk it comes up with the error Incorrect block count for the file pcscd.pub.
Thanks I appreciate your help.

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