10.4.8 Killed my Mac

I downloaded 10.4.8 via software update. Approximately 18 seconds after the login screen appears I get the blasted rainbow cursor and all I can do is move the cursor so I have to forcibly shutdown my PowerMac dual G5 and try to reboot. But each time it's the same old story, 18 seconds after the appearance of the login window the rainbow cursor appears even if I don't do anything after it appears.
I hope I don't have to reinstall 10.4, that was a very painful experience that took many retries before it finally worked. If I have to do that, How do I upgrade to only 10.4.7? I believe all of Apples updates are cumulative? So if I do the software update, I'll be back in the same boat again.
So my PowerMac is a useless piece of junk until Apple fixes this problem.

Have you tried booting the computer in Safe Mode?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107392
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107393
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107394
I hope I don't have to reinstall 10.4, that was a very painful
experience that took many retries before it finally worked.
Please provide more info on what did not work when re-installing 10.4 and why it took many tries which should not occur and may help towards resolving this problem.
You did re-install with the 10.4 install package that shipped with your Mac when new?

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Thank God, everything is OK, again.
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I want to profusely thank everyone who helped, not least Dr. Smoke and his extremely useful Web site: www.thexlab.com
Here’s what I did:
First, I tried to Repair Disk from the Tiger install DVD. The repair failed, gave me the following error:
“Invalid volume free block count
should be 15966423 instead of 15966422
Error: underlying task reported failure on exist
1HFS Volume checked
1 volume could not be repaired because of an error
Repair attempted on Volume 1
Could not be repaired”
In looking through Dr. Smoke’s site, I saw that it said that third party applications like Disk Warrior might be able to help. It reminded me that my friend made me get that program when he sold me his Mini (sorry I didn’t mention it earlier). I booted from the Disk Warrior CD and told it to repair the disk. And guess what: it actually worked!
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