Applications displayed on screen won't open

I had a problem connecting to a Web site this morning and my iMac froze. I ended up having to shut it down. Now when I turn it on, it boots up and the screen appears with all my applications, but none of them will open when I click on them. The mouse and keyboard are working, but nothing you click on will open. I've shut it down and unplugged and restarted several times and nothing.

Hi bw1960-
Greetings and welcome to the Apple boards
Try booting from your OSX installation disk and use Disk Utility to repair permissions on the drive.
This may be helpful: About Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions feature
Luck-
-DaddyPaycheck

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