Thanks! Over the weekend I resigned myself to the reality that it was proabably an extension conflict, so I booted with the extensions of and it finally launched and listed a bunch of "internal errors". I turned off some extensions I wasn't using like modem stuff and some DVD stuff (all apple stuff incidentally) and while I was at it, I purged my incomplete folder -I had about 64MB of incomplete stuff, not sure if that is a lot or not- and as of right now I am back up and running!