Powerbook won't get passed gray apple with pinwheel.

My girlfriend has an older model titanium powerbook. I don't know the complete stats, but she bought it brand new five years ago. I have to give the poor book some credit its worked through the hard times, but recently has been giving us grief. Everything from the cd drive not registering to now the main problem not booting at all. Well I guess it boots somewhat, but it gets to the gray apple and the spinning wheel , and it just sits there. She has left if running for hours and much to my dismay a couple of days, nothing. I have tried everything, and I can't get it to go past the apple. We are just now trying to get to the main screen to get her things off her hardrive so we can get her a new comp. without the dreaded loss of her info. Please rescue me. Any help would be great. Thanks a bunch.

Ryan,
Does the CD drive still not work ? or was the failure intermittent ?
Does the laptop have a Firewire port on the back ?
The problem is most likely a corrupted OSX installation. If the CD drive worked you could boot from the original CDs that came with the computer and access the data that way. It would be better to re-install OSX. Or even select OS9 in the Startup Disk control panel, if it's still installed, and reboot.
If either of you have another Firewire-capable mac, you could connect the two with a firewire cable and boot the ailing laptop in Firewire Target Disk mode (hold down "F"). Then all the files would be available on the other Mac (the pb drive will appear as an external firewire drive on the other mac). If you're determined to buy a new laptop anyway (rather than fix this one), get the Firewire cable at the same time, make sure it's the Firewire 400 version. Apple even supplies software for pulling all your data off an old OSX Mac onto the new mac. It comes as part of the standard "Welcome to Mac OSX" when you boot up your new mac for the first time, I was blown away by it.

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