Told firmware restoration?

hello.
right, i'll start by saying im posting for a friend since he's having problems with his macbook and cant get online.
he had the RSD issue and recently had the macbook returned to him. Everything was fine the first two days, however eventually he had the blue screen at startup, and nothing furthur. So, upon visiting here we tried the PRAM and PMU resets, BINGO we get in. and os-x works fine. Restart however and the issue occurs.
after numourous phonecalls to apple he was to try the firmware 1.1 restoration cd from the apple site. so we downloaded it on my mac, burnt the cd and attempted to follow the instructions. We get the rapid blinks the explain, but then no '3 quick, 3 slow, 3 quick' blinks that supposdly follows.
if we do put the cd in however, nothing happens the screen remains black.
any ideas? i know your a bunch of genious's on here

update:
resting pram still works. and the macbook will load fine.
eventually tho when restarting the black/dark blue screen will appear again.
i try the frimware restoration aple recommended again and nothing, the LED blinks fast as it says, but the next step of (3 fast blinks, 3 slow blinks, 3 fast blinks) doesnt come up, the mac makes a loud beep for some time, and then nothing. not even with the cd in or out...

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