Putting into Safe Mode with 2 accounts both password protected

Hello, my iMac won't load only in guest mode can I use anything.. I tried to load in Safe Mode but won't. I have 2 accounts and they are both password protected. Please help!!!

The symptom may be unrelated to FileVault 2. I encountered the symptom with FileVault 2 disabled and with backward conversion (decryption) complete.
Apple reference for my bug report: 152162960. If the symptoms on your Mac compare to those on mine: progress may seem to cease during safe fsck.
Vito, as you are comfortable with the nvram command, please try the following:
sudo nvram boot-args="-v -x"
Restart the computer and note the last verbose lines that appear before you sense that progress has ceased. Then please add a note of those lines to this topic.
Additional questions
What model is your Mac?
What type of disk for the startup volume?
How many files on that volume?
Approximately how large are the attributes file and catalog file? (You might gain this information with a demo version of iDefrag.)
My current envronment
MacBookPro5,2
8 GB memory
startup from internal 320 GB rotational disk, Serial-ATA, Hitachi HTS723232L9SA62 (probably Travelstar 7K320)
3,961,791 files
495,744 folders /* not including the root folder */
catalog file 3.0 GB, not fragmented
attributes file 2.2 GB, not fragmented.
At http://www.wuala.com/grahamperrin/public/2012/01/09/a/?mode=gallery file speedy.txt includes details of the volume.

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When the system starts I press shift after the tone, but then I have to release shift and enter the password and then Lion will only boot into normal mode.
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