PowerMac G4 won't restart...ater installing the 10.4.2 update

Hi
My Mac will not restart after I installed the 10.4.2 update disc. Now, I have used this disc before without any prolems and now my computer will not go beyond the grey screen with the grey Apple logo and progress indicator. I would like to mention that when I had 10.4.7 installed in this very same computer, my iDVD suddenly dissappeared, which meant that I had to re-install my mac back to OS X 10.2 in order to use the sofware restore discs. I did a clean install which meant deleting all my documents and sofware I purchased. Everything went well when I 'Upgraded' back to OS X 10.4. The problem occured when I had to restart after installing the 10.4.2 combo upgrade. I have tried the following things indivdually:
1) Disconnected the Mac and left it over night like that
2) Taken the small battery out and reinserted.
3)rebooted in single mode by pressing command S
4)Typed FSCK -fy which stated that the volume machintosh HD appeared to be OK
None of these helped. I've yet to try resetting the PRAM but I don't know where the 'Option' button is located on my keyboard!
Please help as I have to do my work and I seriously can't live without my Mac. I am panicing and fuming over this! Any help or advice is greatly welcomed.
Thank You.

Try things in Apple doc.#106464.
Also, Try using Disk Utility to repair your startup disk (hard drive) as shown in Dr.Smokes Resolving Disk, Permission, and Cache Corruption.
Cheers!
DALE

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