OS 10.4.8 update gives me black screen

Restarting my computer after the 10.4.8 update the gray apple screen appears then goes black and the computer doesn't go past that. It wouldn't even start up on the CD but after multiple tries it did and I repaired permissions but it didn't help. The computer won't get past the black screen.

My imac update did the same thing. I got a failed update message, I rebooted my machine I'm in a reboot cycle and can't start my machine.
I cannot boot from a CD. Booting in verbose mode gives me the following:
hi mem tramps at Oxffe00000
PAE enabled
standard timeslicing quantum is 100000 us
vmpagebootsrap:51084 free pages
migtable_maxdispl =71
Enabling XMM register save/restore and SSE/SSE2 opcodes
can't determine immediate dependancies for extension com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform
can't determine dependancies for com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform
Coundn't alloc class "AppleACPIPlatformExpert"
panic (cpu 0 caller 0x0039c213): Unable to find driver for this platform : "ACPI"
Debugger called: <panic>
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
etc etc
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0x0
Darwin Kernel version 8.7.1: Wed Jun 7 16:19:56 PDT 2006; root:xnu-792.9.72.obj~2/RELEASE_138
Any ideas about what I should do?

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