10.3.9 and force quits

hi have some probs on the beige with 2 hard drives running 10.3.9 when i force quit an application why does it still show in the task bar and is there anything i can do to kill them? it does not work when i kill it but then when i do i get the spinning beach ball and then i have to do a reboot forced with apple control and power key?
any answers please
thanks
hugo

What you are describing is not the usual way Applications behave when you force quit. Mac OS X does not have a "task bar", that is a Windows term. I presume you mean it still has a triangle under its Icon in the Dock. That is not normal behaviour.
What Application is this? How much memory in your beige G3? How large are those drives and how much free space do they have?

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