Upgrading for OS 10.4.11 (Tiger) to 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

I have a 24" iMac with a 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 4GB od memory. I bought the Mac Box Set and tried installing Snow Leopard. Everything went fine. Until it came time to restart. It only gets as far as the background image coming up, a magnifying glass in the upper right corner (no gray toolbar, BTW) and a spinning beach ball.
The only way I can get it to work is in "safe" mode by holding down the shift key when starting up. I have tried reinstalling Snow Leopard and starting up from that disc, verifying the disk and repairing it, but it didn't find anything that needed repair.
Is anyone else having the same problem? I couldn't find a comparable problem here in the discussions. I apologize if this is a duplicate post to someone else's problem. Thanks!

Not sure how it works, but I thought I read that the upgrade isn't available from Tiger to SL.One has to fresh install Snow Leopard. So, did you do an upgrade or a fresh install, then moving all your tiger applications and data from a backup disk using Migration Assistant?
Another problem I may see is that some Tiger applications may not be compatible at all with Snow Leopard. And you didn't get the option to update them to the latest releases because they were made for Leopard.
What I'd suggest to do is the following:
- Have a backup of your original Tiger disk
- Do a fresh install of SL
- Boot it a couple of times and check that the main things (ethernet, wifi, mouse, safari, etc) work
- use migration assistant to get your old data into the new installation
If it still doesn't work, in safe mode check for the applications starting at the login, and disable/delete them. If possible try to update all apps to trhe latest release.

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