:.................( computer broken

EDIT: SEEMS *knock on wood* to have been fixed by a system update (combined) from apple's site. Some of the threads I read on this subject seem to suggest that doing a "repair permissions" is almost mandatory after a significant update and that they think apple should combine that WITH the update (and that you could possibly have kernel panics if you DON'T run repair permissions?)
hrm. so this makes me wonder if the more recent mac update was faulty or buggy?? apple don't make me loose faith in you!

oh well... it's fixed now. I think.
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I've run disk utility and fsck ... I can't seem to get my computer to start normally.

I was just checking email and surfing the internet when all of the sudden a window popped up that said "you must restart your computer now". So I did. and everytime I restart as soon as it starts to get past the grey apple picture it gives me the same "you must restart your computer now". I can start in SAFE MODE but that's it! :(! I don't know what to do! I looked all over apple's help site to no avail. They said do safe mode and disk utility and fsck...

some possibly pertanent information:
- I just recently installed a new Western Digital 120 hardrive (it's a "slave" secondary drive) it seemed and still appears to be running normally. (when booting in safe mode, there is nothing wrong with the drive, I did disk repair on it just to make sure.)

- I just recently installed Mac OSX 10.3 jaguar. However it also seemed to be running perfectly for several days. I haven't installed any additional software or hardware that might have effected my system.

wtf do I do? I guess call apple and sit on the help line for the rest of my precious sunday? :....(

can anything else go wrong with my computer? *____*