Stuck at boot

Hi all,
A half hour ago my MacBook Pro froze at shutdown, forcing me to hold down the power button to shut it down. Upon startup, however, it now gets to this screen and stays there. I can hear the fans spin up for a while, and then they go quiet. Booting with the option key doesn't make any difference, and a shift-boot doesn't seem to affect it either. Any suggestions?
Thanks much for your time.
-- Alex
MacBook Pro - 2.0 GHz - 2GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Grab the latest 10.4.7 update from the Downloads page here at Apple.
Mount the .dmg and extract the .pkg.
Place that on something like a USB drive, or (as I did) on a iPod.
Boot your system using your Tiger install disk.
Connect up your iPod or the USB drive.
Open terminal and run:
/Volumes/[your boot volume name]/usr/bin/open /Volumes/[The volume and path where you put the update]/MacOSXUpdCombo10.4.7Intel.pkg
This will then switch over to the package installer, you can select your boot volume and tell it to do the install.
Reboot your system once that is complete and you should be back to normal.
(At least that I what fixed it for me and a few others per the online article I found about it by googling for "Load of /sbin/launchd, errno 88" which resulted in a hit on a article on a blog off of Washingtonpost.com.)

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