10.2.8 on Blue&White won't let programs open-Need sophisticated help :)

I've posted about this and still continued to have trouble. If the super-initiated users out there would be willing to give me more advice, I'd be eternally grateful. I'm going to be as specific as I can to preemptively avoid confusion, as possible.
I ran a beige desktop G3 for years with OS 9.2.2. When it crashed (before I figured out how to get it back up with the help of this forum), I bought a stripped blue and white and 10.2(.8) from a local Mac store. I finally bit the bullet (my primary use is Pro Tools).
Between the beige's crash and receiving the blue and white in the mail, I was instructed how to start with apple-option-o-f restart commands and got the beige working again (with 10.2). It was fine. But since I had the blue and white with a faster processor, I was excited to get that going. So I took the hard drive (a 120 GB drive), my 320 mb of RAM (2 are clearly marked PC100, the third is marked "Hyandai" with no mark indicating of its PC100 or otherwise). But with this RAM and drive in the blue and white, the blue and white ran pretty smoothly. It was slightly glitchy though. Once in a while, a program would suddenly quit and there it was just a little buggy. But not bad. I decided rather than using the hard drive with the OS 10.2.8 installed on the beige, I would wipe the drive and install it on the blue and white to see if that solved the issue. That was the beginning of the end.
Any time I open a program, it immediately closes. The interesting thing is that if I persist, it opens a little longer and a little longer until, in the case of my internet browser, it works pretty normally. Other programs however just won't work and will not open. They act like they're opening and then they close. Sometimes the screen goes blue in between while it closes. But usually it just opens and closes leaving the desktop in its standard state.
Also, weirdly, I cannot drag anything. If I try to drag something within a folder or at all, it won't move. I tried to drag something out of the trash (that I hadn't put in the trash) and it wouldn't come out.
It's been suggested to me that this is all an issue of RAM. The reason I question that is that the computer ran basically very smoothly prior to me reinstalling the OS. I've tried wiping and reinstalling again with no improved results.
I'd really like to be able to use the blue and white and not have to reinstall everything in the beige. And I am looking into getting more RAM. But I'm a poor musician and since this very same computer just as it is ran pretty well before, it's hard to believe that's the issue.
So, again, the primary issues are that programs close as soon as you open, except with a few programs that if you keep trying to open them eventually stay open after repeated attempts (per startup). And the fact that nothing is draggable. If I could solve these problems, I'd be a very happy songwriter.
Any help you can offer is supremely appreciated.
And no- - I'm not going to upgrade my OS again right now- - can't afford it and I'm already regretting this upgrade a great deal. Would just like to get this one working if possible.
Also, I cannot get OS 9 running. At all. I have tried. If OS 10.x.x is present, no matter what the startup disk is, OS 10.x.x starts. And if I take OS 10.x.x off completely and leave only the OS 9 system folder, the computer won't boot. It's like OS X has ruined my computers.
Please help if you can. Thanks.

When you installed the drive(s) inside the B&W G3, what sort of disk carrier did you find inside the computer? Are the drives to be mounted next to each other or is there a "U" shaped bracket where one drive would be mounted above the other?
There is a machine specific issue with the B&Ws where the drives are to be mounted next to each other. This was the layout in the Rev 1 machines. There is a known corruption problem with just about any other hard drive except the one that originally came with the computer for the Rev 1 B&Ws. You can read more about the compatibility on <http://xlr8yourmac.com>. With these Rev 1 machines, the only real solution is to install a third party drive controller in a PCI slot.
Mac Mini; B&W G3/300

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