Snow Leopard  freeze after restart before login

After a save of a garage band file my mac froze. Hooked to external hard drive. Tried restart and at login the cursor moves but not able to login when I click on test or me icon. I recently upgraded to snow leopard and I photo and I tunes crashed and di a clean reboot which solved everything snf noe this. Any ideas? I'm dead in the water here.

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    Sep 13 18:09:01 localhost com.apple.launchd[1]: * launchd[1] has started up. *
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