Ball of death after 10.5.8 upgrade, any ideas why?

Gidday all
I have just upgraded to 10.5 and then to 10.5.8 doing a archive and install, after this upgrade my mac starts, shows the login screen, I enter my password, and the login process starts, this is where the problem starts, most of the time the dock will appear, but no menu bar at the top of the screen, and no drives (two internal drives) shown on the desktop, then the ball of death just sits their for ever, i can move my mouse around freely, but thats about it, if i hold the ball of death over an icon in the dock it turns back into a black pointer, then if I say click on a icon in the dock, the icon stays selected and dimmed and no application activation happens, after this I cannot select anything, and the ballremains.
I managed to create another user account (eventually) and successfully logged into it, everything started and showed and worked as it should in this account, yet if I try going back to my other account the problems start all over.
I reinstalled 10.5 and this seemed to work ok, then I applied the 10.5.8 update again, and basically the above repeated it's self.
My mac isn't making any fan noises like the processor is trying to do something, and im working on the test user account to send this post
i'm stumped, has anybody got any ides about what may be going on?
cheers
Budgie
Message was edited by: Budgie
forgot tot mention, this update was done using the combo updater, on G5 PPC

I have managed to get the system prefs window open and navigate around the different features with out a problem, thing is my volumes still do not show on the desktop.
Some other interesting things are happening also, say I click on a folder in the dock, it opens up to reveal in a nice blackish looking window and a view of all the other folders with in, it gives me an option to click a button that says "reveal in finder" I click that and the window collapses and nothing happens, I would expect it to show in columns or something like that. I am also experiencing repeated dialogs (6 to 10) being thrown up saying "The Application "Finder" cannot be launched -1712, plus the continual spinning of the ball of gloom.
So im thinking their is a serious issue with the finder, of which I have trashed the plst, any thoughts?
Budgie

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