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Thanks for the advice... it worked a treat. Got hold of another Mac, hooked up via Firewire, moved a bulk of files to a removable drive and then reinstalled Leopard on the broken Mac using the 'Archive and install' option. Mac is now resurrected with the brand new version of OSX. Cheers...

Thanks for enlightening me on the problem and providing that article link. It certainly sounds like this is the problem. (And makes me even angrier at Apple!) I can't simply install with archive and install because the initial 'failed' install has taken up half of the 15gb I had remaining...

I can't believe what has happened, I'm so angry! There I was, gleefully updating my MacBook Pro with OSX Leopard (previously running Tiger) and it was ticking along nicely until I returned to the machine an hour later. Something clearly went wrong and now all it displays is a solid blue...