Restart....and then grey

I tried installing Leopard today, but after the iMac restarts, all I get is a light grey screen with the Apple logo on it. No installation screen. It stayed on this screen for 4 hours. Called Apple tech help and was put on hold for 56 minutes before I got a case number and was transferred to another line that had me
on hold for longer. I'm on a iMac G4 with 512 megs of ram, no haxies, and passed disc verifications and repaired permissions. Can anyone please help. Thank you

David,
It appears that all is fine when you boot the Leopard install DVD, and installation seems to have gone without any problems (was it an update? How big is your HD?). So I am thinking you've got a corrupt library or some other file system error.
When you boot the iMac, hold down the ⌘-V keys, and boot into 'verbose' mode. Darwin (the underlying mac operating system core) should show messages on a blank screen, kind of like looking at a 'dumb' UNIX terminal. At some point you will likely get either an error message, a 'panic' message, or some indication of a problem at the point corresponding to your 'gray screen'. Let us know what happens...

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