After reinstalling 10.2.3 and updating to 10.2.8, I get dead blue screen

Due to recent "overlapped extent..." problem on my hard-drive (which created startup problems) a separate posting on this forum advised that I reinstall OS X, which I did. I followed the "Archive & Install (Preserving Settings)..." method. First, 10.2.3 installed successfully, and a quick test showed it worked OK (I was able to fire up an application). Then I did System Updates to install 10.2.8, and all the security, QuickTime and iTunes updates (I didn't update iCal or iPod since I don't use them). My aim was to get everything back to the same state I had before. The installations worked "successfully", and my desktop screen looked perfectly normal.
The problem is, nothing else worked! I can't get any application to fire up, and when I tried a Force Quit (to restart Finder), even that didn't work! After pressing the Restart button on the CPU, the Apple logo screen came up (good sign), and other initiations appeared, but then the screen went BLUE and stayed there.
I was, however, able to restart with OS9, holding the Option key. This is how I am submitting this message.
How can I get OSX (and it's applications) to work?______
It was so-o-o close!

It eventually got past the blue screen stall.

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