Apps appearing as folders

I'm working on a friend's G3 Powerbook. He has OS X, build 4K78 installed (the original version of OS X, I believe).
Here's the problem... all of the apps are appearing as folders. Double-clicking on a document says that the application can't be found. I couldn't even run Disk First Aid to repair permissions.
He had a Tiger CD, so I popped it in, booted up, and tried to repair permissions. It said that no problems were found.
I don't want to upgrade to Tiger if I don't have to, because the Tiger installer said that it had to reformat the drive first. Yuck. Back it all up, reformat, install OS, reinstall all the apps. Did I mention I was just looking at this as a favor for a friend?
Is there a quick fix for this, or is reformat/reinstall my only option?
PowerBook G3 Bronze 4oo mhz Mac OS X (10.0.x)

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