OS X Won't completely boot - blue screen, pointer then nothing

(MBP with problem is 2.0GHz Core Duo 15" MBP. 1.5GB RAM)
As topic says, g/f woke her MBP pro up from sleeping to type an email. Shortly after opening the mac everything stopped responding. She held down the power button to turn off the mac and then turned it back on. MBP loads past grey Apple screen and shows the progress bar for loading OS X. Once progress bar dissapears then nothing, just a blue screen with the mouse pointer.
I have already done the following:
- Booted from Install DVD and ran disk utility. Verified Drive but no isssues. Verified and Repaired Permissions. Still didn't boot
- Booted in 'Safe' boot. Exact same problem
- Booted into Single User Mode and ran fsck -fy, no problems reported. I can browse the drive and see files etc.
- When I attempted to finish loading OS X from the command line I do remember seeing the following error: coreservicesd crashed. Googled but couldn't really find out anything I understood to help.
What are my options here. The MBP in question is unfortunately about 2 weeks past the Warranty date w/ no applecare but she may take in tomorrow regardless.
Can I use a firewire cable to connect the two macs and at least get the most important data off if we have to reinstall?
Thanks in advance for the help!

That sounds like wake from Hibernation/Deep Sleep - there's no "progress bar" with a normal Boot, only a spinning grey wheel then the Desktop appears .
I believe this is the screen he is referring to.
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