NEW: G4 MDD won't start... period!

I'm glad I came here before running a test again. I'm very, very frustrated as this is my lifeline. Without my Mac, I'm dead.
I received a new hard drive from a friend. Since I had two internal HD's installed already, I did a Time Machine "install" on the new drive via Firewire. The drive booted perfectly and ran smoothly as I went through my daily work routine. Come evening, I crack the case (as I've done hundreds of times over the years with various machines) to put the drive in. The drive is in and the machine boots several times in a row and shuts down. Pretty normal stuff.
Now here's where it gets sticky and I admit to stupidity. I have a slot fan next to my graphics card. It was originally there for an older card that would heat up quite a bit. My new card doesn't, so I decide to pull the slot fan... while the machine was powered up. Not thinking, I replaced the slot fan with a PCI FW card. My unit is on the floor, and when I get up to shut it down, I have the "Your machine needs to be restarted" box on the screen.
Now when I go to startup up, the machine starts but doesn't get past the P38 fan spinning, which is consistent. I tried it several times with the same response. After shutting down I unplugged the power cord, reset the PMU and pulled the battery. Still nothing. It's now been sitting for about 16 hours in this state and I thought I'd check the forum to see if there's a fix.
Sorry to be long-winded... as I said, this is my lifeline as I use very specific Mac-only apps in my business and without them I'm working at Hardee's.

P.S. I tried revising but the post would hold the edit (running from wife's PC... which I absolutely HATE!!). Here's my addendum: What happens if you remove/install a PCI card while the machine is on? Is a machine recoverable from that type of trauma?
Many thanks for any lightning fast replies!

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