Please help... is my Macbook dead??

I have a black 2ghz MacBook running Leopard with 2gb Ram...
Everything was running fine when all of a sudden the screen and all applications freeze... I couldn't even use Force Quit on anything.... so I manually shut the machine down.
When turning it back on again I get the initial start up sound and the grey screen.... and thats it...!!!... no spinning beach ball, no apple logo... nothing. Simply will not reboot.
I have tried to boot in safe mode pressing "shift" after the start-up sound but still nothing... the screen stays grey for hours.
Anyone know what this problem may be and what I can do.
Many thanks for reading this and replying.

Just tried putting in Disk 1 of the Install disk on start up.... same issue..
I can hear the drive working but nothing comes up on screen... still that light grey. at the very least its not showing anything booting up on the screen.
If the screen itself is dead, why would it be grey?... and when I had the initial problem the screen had everything visible and the mouse could move around OK.. I just couldn't action anything and the colour beach ball was whirring away...!
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