Can't open ical or Safari after reinstall

Hi. After unsuccessfully trying to install 10.4 (old Norton Utilities hung it up, trashed that, still didn't work, decided to wait,) I reinstalled software from original G4 Powerbook cd, then ran software update several times, till it offered no more updates. Also repaired permissions.
Safari and ical will not open. (Other Apple programs work fine: Mail, Address Book, iphoto etc.)
Thanks very much for any suggestions.

Just noticed System Preferences also won't open.
I should mention: when I reinstalled 10.3, I chose to save the unsuccessfully-installed system 10.4 as "previous system" (the other choice appeared to be to erase the drive & start over.) Now I see there's a Preferences folder in "Previous System>Library", but in the new System folder>Library there is no Preferences folder.

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