White Screen hang on Mac OSX Startup Disk

Running a MBP (mid 2009) 2.26GHz on OSX Leopard 10.5.8. I am trying to boot from the Startup disk (OSX Leopard 10.5.2) and when I stick it in a restart, I hold C and it hangs on the screen before where the Apple logo would appear normally, as if it's trying to load from the startup disk. The disk spins up and I hear it, but it just hangs there. Only thing I can do is a hard restart with the power button.
I have started from the disk before, so I know it worked in the past. Also, OSX recognizes the disk when I'm logged in and I can even run the Installer (ask you to restart though).
I recently turned on FileVault (have restarted multiple times since then) but not sure if this has anything to do with it. I am trying to set a password for the Firmware so someone can't reformat without a pw.
Can anyone help? Anyone know why it doesn't want to boot from the startup disk?
Thanks!

sounds like your optical drive isnt reading the disk. can try doing an smc and pram reset and see if that helps if not then i'd bring it into a store to get the drive looked at.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964 <--smc
<a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://">http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379 <--pram
also make sure the disk is clean and if those 2 resets dont help i'd bring it into a store.

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