Another victim of the horrid Blue Screen

I hope someone can help me with this. I've been trying to fix this problem for most of the day.
My iBook G4 started going into the blue screen during startup this morning. I've been able to start it up normally about three times today, but the other times, I got one of the following:
Blue screen (this happened the most at first), or
The "You need to restart your computer. Hold down...." in different languages (this one is happening more and more), or
A garbled mess of lines and gibberish on a gray/black background (this has happened about three or four times)
I am able to start up in safe mode. I moved the fonts and got rid of the startup items as recommended in other posts I've seen in the discussions. Didn't work. I then reinstalled my system software (I'm now at version 10.4). That didn't work either.
My computer says that it doesn't have an Airport card (which it does), but I don't know if that's just from starting up in Safe mode.
Can someone help me? I'm at my wit's end!!!

Hello kma346:
Welcome to Apple discussions
You are experiencing kernel panics. This knowledge base article gives more information about kernel panics:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106227
I suggest you run the hardware checker that is on your software install DVD. Unless you made recent software changes, you may have hardware problems. If the checker shows no errors, run repair disk from your software install DVD.
You can also check on the health of your hard drive by opening disk utility and then highlighting the hD (not your files). At the bottom is someting called S.M.A.R.T. If that says anything other than "verified," you have HD problems.
The garbled video may be a completely different problem. Read this (from the main discussion page) to see if it applies to you:
http://www.apple.com/support/ibook/faq/
Barry
Message was edited by: Barry Hemphill (to add information)

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