Update 10.6.3 update made my computer crash, need help

last night i saw the update and so i started the update on my late 2008 model macbook pro. it went fine up to about 98% then a box popped up and stated an error has occurred and was not successful in installing. it then said to restart, to which i did and now during the apple logo when the circle dash thing spins, it just does that and wont get past this point. i tried even safe mode and the bar gets about halfway and then goes away and it starts spinning. i just tried a PRAM test and still nothing. any suggestions on what to do guys. i heard about sometimes you can get a firmware patch from apple and put it on cd and it can repair something. i have no clue but would like to know what to do. my 1 year warranty is also up and dont want to shell out money to apple.

I had this happen too, I updated it two nights ago and haven't used it since. I turned it on last night around seven after not using all day and the entire screen had different hues of purple. I called Apple and they weren't any help. They told me that I needed to make an appointment for the following Thursday. I told them I was a college student and it didn't seem to matter to them how much I needed my laptop. I later called Best Buy (whom I purchased it from) and they told me to do a safe boot which "fixes" some bugs (you can do this by powering on your macbook while holding the shift key) it worked for a while but then it seemed to not work on a normal boot (i.e restarting). I guess we'll see what happens during my appointment at the genius bar.

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