White Screen; Nothing Else

Installed 10.4.11, last night, and all was fine.
This morning my MacBook awoke with no problem but
while I was creating a new folder I got the spinning
beach ball that I watched for 10 minutes before trying a
force quit with no luck.
I shut down using the power button and upon powering up
all I got was a White Screen with no Apple Logo or spinner
below logo.
This white screen's only change was to show a folder with
a question mark over and over.
This tells me the MacBook can't find the start up disk?
My next move was to put in Disk Warrior, power down, power up and
hold "C" key to boot from disk warrior.
Disk warrior came up on screen but not from boot up.
Disk warrior tells me I am running on start up disc and
cannot perform any tasks.
I get to restart from disc warrior but I am taken back to the white screen;
no logo; no nothing.
DisK warrior will not eject so, If I leave the MacBook on, eventually it will start from disk warrior but not from a boot up.
I have tried resetting by taking out battery and holding down the power key for
5 seconds with no change.
Tried target mode; nothing.
Can anyone tell me what is happening here?
Any and all comments will be greatly appreciated.

I installed the 10.4.11 update, and couldn't even get into my computer anymore - I had a white start-up screen with the Apple logo and revolving loading symbol.
So I called an Applecare rep who told me "oh yea, some people are having trouble with that update". Than told me to go back and install from the startup disk that came with my MacBook Pro (came with 10.4.8) (phone call and wait time was about 45 min)
So I reinstalled from my startup disk (about 1.5 hours later) Than I had to install 10.4.9, than 10.4.10.(another 45 min) So now that's the point I'm at, but still my iLife '08 programs don't open. (they should have worked with 10.4.9)
Arg! so this whole process is going on 3+ hours of my time and I still can't open my iLife '08 programs (as you can see I'm pretty frustrated)
So my questions:
#1 - Does anyone know how I can get the iLife '08 programs to open? If the answer is re-install, do I first have to delete what is already on my HD?
#2 - Since the apple rep told me "don't install 10.4.11 since it's a problem" what is up with that? Will it ever work? Am I stuck at 10.4.10 now? Should I care? What does that mean?
thanks,
woofdog

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