Menu bar and hard drive icon don't appear at last stage of boot up

Machine froze trying to print a PDF document off a flash drive in Preview. Had to power off the machine. Upon restart, everything came back to life fine until the very end of the boot up process (chime fine, desktop background pictures appeared, main side tool bar program icons fine) when the top Menu title bar didn't appear nor the hard disk icon. Spinning beach ball. Never would finish the boot up process; seemed like it was still trying to finish the print job from before.
Unplugged the networked Laserjet printer, unplugged computer power, restarted. Same result. Everything is perfect for 98% of the boot process until the end. Ran Disk Utility "verify disk" and it found a couple of items. Repaired successfully. Ran "verify permissions" and found quite a few wrong. Repaired successfully. Still same problem.
Any ideas? I hate to reinstall the OS with it so close to being just fine. Machine has been very solid and stable in the current configuration. I do have a 2nd internal hard drive that has 10.3.9 on it that I can use in a pinch.
Power Mac G4 silver tower, Dual 1ghz, 2GB RAM, 10.4.11 with OS 9.2.2

While in Safe Mode, try this...
In Finder's Menu, select Go menu>Go to Folder, and go to "/volumes".
Volumes is where an alias to your hard drive ("/" at boot) is placed at startup, and where all the "mount points" for auxiliary drives are created for you to access them. This folder is normally hidden from view.
Drives with an extra 1 on the end have a side-effect of mounting a drive with the same name as the system already think exists. Try trashing the duplicates with a 1 or 2 if there are no real files in them, and reboot.
Then move these files to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
/Users/<yourname>/Library/Preferences/ com.apple.systemuiserver.plist
/Users/<yourname>/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.systemuiserver.xxx.plist
where 'xxx' is a 12 digit (hexadecimal) numeric string.
This will reset your Menu Bar to the default, you'll need to go through System Preferences to reset the ones you need. (If they are already checked, uncheck them first and then recheck them).
Reboot & test.
If it only does it in Regular Boot, then it could be some hardware problem like Video card, (Quartz is turned off in Safe Mode), or Airport in 10.4 & below, or 3rd party add-on, Check System Preferences>Accounts>Login Items window to see if it or something relevant is listed.
Check the System Preferences>Other Row, for 3rd party Pref Panes.
Also look in these if they exist, some are invisible...
/private/var/run/StartupItems
/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons
/Library/LaunchDaemons

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