HT3964 Urgent Help needed! iMac starts but will not respond

Last night I was dragging photos onto a disc and accidentally (I have no idea how!) dropped 6500 photos onto the desktop. This would take an agr towait for so I rebooted the Mac. Since then it has not responded at all. I have rebooted several time and left it overnight but I think its Ram is not able to cope with it all. I can get it powered up and all the icons appear but not desktop items appears and I cannot open anything. It is as if the computer is frozen. Please help as I have one day to sort these photo discs out to present to my step daughter for her 21st! It's pandemonium here!
Thanks for any help.

Oh yes, files on the Desktop consume far more resources,as each one is a special Qurtz window... LOL.
Do you have another admin account you can log into?
If so try a Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), if not...
Reset OS X Password Without an OS X CD...
http://theappleblog.com/2008/06/22/reset-os-x-password-without-an-os-x-cd/
Admin Hack...
http://www.hackmac.org/?q=node/4
Starts up like the first time you buy a new Mac, but after filling in all that info again, you should have access to the computer and the other Users & files will still be there... give the new User a different name than an existing one.

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