Rotating Boot Icon of Doom

After installing 10.5 and then running the .4 update I was sailing smoothly. Boot Camp installed and a windows XP partition working as expected. After installing a few applications in OSX and running fine for a few days I shutdown. The next morning upon boot to OSX I get the Apple and the rotating boot symbol which much to my horror spun for > 10 minutes taunting me with it's promise of booting into the OS.
I've got 10.5 on a firewire drive to make for faster installs of the OS and so booted that and ran the disk util / repair which came back with the OK results no errors found. Also ran the permissions check which came back all smiles too.
I'd really hate to re-install this again and any suggestions would be appreciated. Holding down the shift key at boot has the same results no safe mode - nada. Re-setting PRAM with ALT-APPLE P R also has no change in booting into OSX. The apple glares at me while the little circular eye of doom rotates happily forever until I hold down the power and it does it's sad little squealing protest of shutdown.
All through this booting into and running Windows XP is fine ><.
Thanks in advance!

Anyone? Any magic terminal commands? Can I clear the login items / startup apps from terminal when booted off the OSX DVD Image and see if that fixes it?

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