Applications will not open but Finder still working

Hi everyone
I'm having a problem with my iMac and would really appreciate some help. It had been working totally fine for a long time without any problems, however, when I woke it up from sleep last something seemed wrong so I restarted. The bootup took longer than normal and even at the login screen my iMac was working very slowly, but I did manage to login though. When I was logged in the system was running a lot more slowly than normal and I could not open any of the applications. Whenever I clicked on an app in the dock the icon bounced as normal but then after a short while stopped bouncing and went black, then after that returned to being coloured without the app having started.
The strange thing is that Finder seems to be working fine, it is running slowly but I can still navigate through folders etc. Also, I tried connecting to my iMac through my LAN with my MacBook and this worked fine as well and I could get to all of the files on my iMac's hard drive.
If anyone has any suggestions on what this could be and what to try to fix it, I would be very grateful.
Cheers
iMac G5   Mac OS X (10.4.9)   2GHz G5, 2gb RAM, 400gb hard drive, approx. 2 years old

I have had a similar issue. I don't have users set up on my computer, so when I restart it automatically logs me in, but if I log out and then log back in (instead of restarting) it seems to fix my problem. My problem is that I open the system applications and they bounce in the doc and the menu bar at the top says the program, but it won't do anything else. I think when this problem originally started that I tried checking things with the cd and it wouldn't complete the test. I should try that again when I have loged out and back in and all my applications are runing. Good luck.

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