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Do you have another Mac? If so, you could connect the two machines by a firewire cable and start your broken machine in "Target Firewire" mode by holding down the "T" key while powering it on. Your unbootable computer's drive will appear as a firewire drive to the other computer. And then you...

So it can't even load the kernel, eh? I'd guess that the hard drive is dead. Try booting with an external drive with a system on it or use an OS X install DVD. You can run the Disk Utility from there and see if teh drive is still functioning. You can also try to repair the volume from there.

I tried that, but even setting it there causes the screen to be stretched. There's only one specific resolution that gives the black bars, and that is 1344x1008. I noticed that there is a 1024x768 and "1024x768 (stretched)" but they are both stretch on my screen. I am running Leopard, BTW...

Turn the machine on while holding CMD-V (verbose mode). That will give you some idea what it is hanging up on. If it is something obvious, you can boot into single user mode (CMD-S) and repair the filesystem or whatever. Anyway, see what verbose mode tells you and report back.

Hi, I have a 2nd gen MBP hooked up to a wide screen LCD (1680x1050) panel and I occasionally play games that don't naively support the wide aspect ratio and they get all stretched out when scaled to fit the screen. Is there any way to tell OS X to center the "odd" resolutions in the panel...