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Did you happen to see what the BSOD actually shows? If you can see the error message or address it will be a lot easier for us to help you.
One piece of advice I have is that if you ever have a system crash you should run CHKDSK on your disk prior to doing anything else. Sometimes problems like what you have seen are as a result of bad disk sectors. CHKDSK can be used to find/fix some of these errors. From within safe mode open a command console and run "chkdsk /f c:" It will ask if you want to do this at the next reboot. Tell it yes and reboot.
If you can't get into safe mode to do this, then find and boot off of of an XP installation CD and enter the recovery console. Run "chkdsk /r" When that is done, reboot.
Let us know how it goes!