Network Glitch During Install to MacBook Air Crashed Air - HELP

I was installing Snow Leopard on one of our MacBook Air computers using the DVD sharing on my MacBook Pro 17. There was a glitch in the network, probably from one of our many power drops on FPL, which interrupted the signal on all the machines in the network. The Air restarted itself, and is now in the greyed out screen of death, asking me to restart the computer, which only reproduces the screen of death, because it was only about 50% complete on the install when the network.
I was trying to figure out how to create a virtual disk on a hard drive to attach to the unit and try booting off of that. It isn't as easy as it used to be.
Any suggestions?
BMR

Try reposting in the MacBook Air forum:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_air

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