Failed reboot or shuntdown - Only Desktop Picture and Arrow Pointer Remains!

The iMac iMac G5 20-inch 2 GHz fails to reboot or shutdown sometines (1 five times or so). After selecting to reboot or shut down, everything closes but the Deskttop picture remains, as well as the mouse arrow pointer, which can be moved with the mouse. Pressing the Control and Eject keys brings up the shutdown window and it is possible to click its buttons, but nothing happens after that. The only way to get out of it is to force shutdown pressing the power button for a few seconds.
How to fix it?
See also this archived thread:
Wont shut down bug with 10.5.4
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1614564?start=0&tstart=0

Does it Safe boot to the Desktop?
Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions.
If the above fails, then it appears to be time for a relatively painless Archive & Install, which gives you a new/old OS, but can preserve all your files, pics, music, settings, etc., as long as you have plenty of free disk space and no Disk corruption, and is relatively quick & painless...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120
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