10.4.3 caused problems, now can't even load 10.4.0

Machine is a 1.67Ghz PowerBook with 1GB memory. (extra ram is apple dealer supplied and is supposed to be apple)
Initial Problem.
This is my wife's PB. After loading the 10.4.3 update through the autoupdate software, system became unstable. i.e. after varying amounts of time from boot, apps would not start. Cursor would still move, dock would pop still pop up etc, but only a reboot would get apps responding again. Occasionally, the "black screen of death" would appear asking for the power buttion to be held down.
She has a backup image so I tried reloading it, but everytime the system would hang.
I have fixed permissions through disk utilities and also ran verify. Verify found a problem "invalid extent entry" and disk utilities was unable to fix it. At this stage I didn't have disk warrior so I decided to format with 0's and reinstall from the disks which came with the machine.
Went through the install process which was buggy to say the least with multiple black reboot screens but after a couple of hours I had the machine back at 10.4.0.
Repaired permissions and verified disk and all was ok. I then updated to 10.4.3 again and all looked ok. After about 30 minutes of moving user files back to the machine, the apps started to not repond.
I booted up and ran DU and again I had the "invalid extent entry" issue.
At this point i decided to do another format and reinstall.
I formatted with 0's again and when complete checked the volume and all was ok.
started the install and kept getting continual black restart screens and varying times within the installation process.
At this point I decided to reformat again and try another set of disks. I have a retail version for my 17" which i haven't installed yet so thought I'd give it a go. Again, i've had crashes at various times from the initial load to after all the user data has been entered, but never have been able to get the machine to a full install of 10.4.0.
I've also tried these things as well:
the whole process with the additional ram removed
running disk warrior on the drive
trying to load my old Panther disks because I've just about had enough of Tiger but when I try and boot them, the machine goes into some kind of weird dump that we're hanging or something to that affect. It also won't boot from my diskwarrior disk and gets the same dump and error message.
Next I might try starting it up in target mode, putting my Panther disk in my 17" and trying to load panther on it that way. Not sure if it will work, but hey, you gotta try something.
Does anyone have any ideas on what i can try next?
So far I have about 18 hours on this and I must say it is getting annoying.
cheers
terry

Terry,
You may erase a drive with zero option, it's not required, but can make writes more reliable as it rewrites the bad sector map on the drive.
Once it's done one time it's not needed generally anymore really for that drive.
So that should save you some time and effort with all these attempted installs.
I think either your Tiger install disk is funky or your hard drive is failing.
Click a pic to feel the awesome 30" • Clone your boot drive, read my how to post here

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