10.4.5 upgrade issue: loginwindow.app won't start

Hi Folks,
I've spent the better part of this weekend troubleshooting my 10.4.5 install as it resulted in the boot process getting stuck at the grey screen with the spinning gear. I've tried all of the simple tricks I can find using google with regards to trying to get a failed os update to work but the issue I am still left with is the following error in the system.log file:
launchd: /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow port /dev/console exited abnormally: Abort trap
I have found and fixed several broken symlinks in the /System/Library directories and /tmp was symlinked to "<" for some reason... (put that back to /private/tmp) but there are no further logs/errors that I can find to help with the loginwindow app not running.
My question is: does anyone know how to get the loginwindow daemon into debugging mode so that I can get some sort of idea what it's looking for and why it's failing?
While booting with verbose mode, the system gets stuck at the following point:
/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow: Login Window Application Started
INIT_Processeses(), could not establish the default connection to the WindowServer.
My understanding of the boot process was that the WindowServer came up after the loginwindow process (but I could be wrong).
Any help would be appreciated. (I know at this point I should likely just do an archive and re-install but my tolerance for troubleshooting is pretty good at the moment).
Thanks.<br>
G4 DP 1.42Ghz MDD (FW800) Mac OS X (10.4.4)
G4 DP 1.42Ghz MDD (FW800) Mac OS X (10.4.4)
G4 DP 1.42Ghz MDD (FW800) Mac OS X (10.4.4)

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