White Screen

I seem to be having a problem with my MacBook Pro and I was wondering if anyone could give me any suggestions.
Earlier today I was watching a show on Hulu through Firefox, and then I opened Adium. After the buddy list loaded, I decided to close it again. When I closed Adium, my machine froze on me. The audio for the television show I was watching continued to come through even though the video froze, and the cursor was able to move, but the machine would not respond to any commands. I attempted to click on the Adium icon again and I attempted to open the force quit menu through the keyboard shortcut, but nothing was working. After letting it sit for about 1 minute, I powered the machine down manually. When I went to power it back on, I received the white screen and power up noise, but the machine would not boot into the grey screen with the apple logo and the loading wheel.
Here are the things I have attempted to do (tell me if I did them wrong):
Reset the PRAM (Hold CMNDOption+RP on boot up)
Reset the NVRAM (Take out battery, press and hold power button until second boot up sound)
Boot into Single User Mode (Hold S on power on)
Boot into Safe Mode (Hold Shift on power on)
Boot from the OS disk (Insert Disk, hold C on power on)
The machine only responded to two different commands. Once, when I attempted to boot from the OS disk, the cursor came up, and it was responsive to moving, but nothing else happens. The second thing is that the machine will boot into Target Disk Mode, although I don't have another machine and firewire cable to check or transfer anything at the moment.
After reading a few more comments on here and other forums, I also powered on the machine once and simply let it sit for about half an hour, with no results.
The hard drive isn't making any weird noises, and the fans turn on after a few minuets of the machine being powered on, as the case starts to heat up very quickly.
Here are the specs on the machine:
MacBook Pro, mid-2007 model
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz
Came with 10.4.10, has been continually upgraded to 10.6.4
The NVidia card was replaced by Apple once in mid-2009 after having the issues that were prevalent with that model. Apple also replaced the Super-Drive and HD at that time. The new HD is 200GB, but I am not sure of the brand or other specs.
If anyone has any ideas about this and can point me in the right direction, please let me know. It's an hour drive to my nearest Apple store and I don't really have the cash to have the machine worked on overly much, so any advice that anyone can give would be greatly appreciated.

If you are unable to boot from your install disc, you do have a serious problem.
It's an hour drive to my nearest Apple store
Some Apple stores will run diagnostic testing for free. However, there my be an AASP closer - AASP and
AASP's Outside of the USA

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