yo Kane, have you tried Knoppix yet? Helped me once with a similar problem, where my PC completely to boot anything, neither from HDD nor CD. But with the Knoppix CD, i was able to boot, save some of my stuff and then wipe the machine to reinstall everything from scratch.
That might help. And let's hope those precious MP ID's are still backed up somewhere? I got one set print outs, some reg files on my local pc and a copy of 'em on an online storage - just in case ;)
