On Monday, March 15, I walked into my office.  I pulled my macbook out and started it up.  Nothing happened.  WTF?  A couple of people gave me suggestions.  All suggestions were good.  Unfortunately, nothng ended up working.  I ended up buying a new hard drive.  Wow, did you know that the macbook has nearly nano-sized sized screws.  Getting the drive in and out was problematice.  Finally, I was successful in getting the drive jammed in my macbook.  Oh man, this is painful.  I went up the street to Computer Works.  Andrew in their support area was very helpful.  Thanks to a few minutes of help from Andrew, we got everything taken care of and my macbook is up with the new drive.  Thankfully, i was able to retrieve my data from my drive.