Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS hangs at boot after trying to install sopcast

Question

I'm a bit of a Ubuntu/Linux newbie so please bear with me.

I tried to install SOP Cast last night (in order to watch a football/soccer game) which I thought required me to download & place the following files in my user/lib folder:

libstdc++.s0.5
libstdc++.so.5.0.1

However after doing so & restarting my PC now hangs at that beautiful purple boot screen w/ Ubuntu & the 5 loading dots. Anyhow, I when I press escape it says the following have failed:

*Starting model connection manager [fail]
*Starting SMB/CIFC File Server [fail]
*Starting LightDM Display Manager [fail]
*Starting CPU interrupts balancing daemon [fail]
*Starting the Winbind daemon winbind   *Stopping GNOME Displat Ma[OK]
(blank line and at the end another fail)     [fail]
*Starting CUPS printing spooler/server [fail]

Now I assume that the print spooler is not the problem & the issue lies in the other half dozen [fail]s. I also think that a few processes failed but they scroll by too quick for me to see & I cannot figure out a method of scrolling up without it scrolling back down in half a second.

I've tried CTRL-ALT-F2 & attempting to login but for some reason it says my password is incorrect, which it is not. I'm not familiar with recovery mode & do not want to make a bade situation worse so I have not attempted to mess with it too much.

Also, for the record, I've tried booting into previous versions of linux and the same problem occurs. This laptop is dual installed with Windows 7 & I've used a program to view my Ubuntu partition from there but that does no help because it's only a one way street being read-only.

So, does anyone have an idea of what's going on & can anyone help a linux moron out? Lol..

Thank you in advance, whether you can help or not.

-Dave