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My computer was acting weird on Thursday night, and Friday morning I rebooted after cleaning out some cache files. But it wouldn't boot. I got the post chime, and then the Apple logo on the grey screen, but then it just stuck there with the spinning black wheel. Tried everything I could think of to no avail. In verbose mode (command-v on boot up) I could see it was getting stuck. I could boot into FireWire target disk mode and see and copy my files with no problem. So that was good in one way - I didn't lose any data - but bad in another because it made it seem like a hardware problem (and not with the drive, so that mean main logic board with means game over.)
Still, today I figured it was worth it to reinstall the OS just in case. But I wasn't too hopeful. Thanks to target disk mode it was at least possible. I attached it to another computer, and rebooted that one with an OS X install disk, and then selected my computer as the drive on which to install. Everything went fine, and my computer just booted without a hitch. Applying all the updates now.
Phew.