Cant log into primary user

I shut my computer (and IMAC with Intel chips running Tiger, OS 10.4.11) this morning and everything appeared normal.
When I turned it on this evening and tried to log into my user (the main one) it starts (after I enter the password) as normal. The dock appears, then the legends/icons along the top appear, then after a few seconds the screen change blue and the user menu reappears. I can log into all of the other users, but not the primary user. I tried various things to resolve the problem, without luck. Does anyone have a suggestion?
I've shut off the computer, unplugged it and plugged it back in, removed all of the external hard drives and ran disc utilities and made necessary repairs, but still no luck.
I've gotten into the primary user's desktop and other folders thru the "back door" from another user, but would like to access the primary user from the user menu (the way it was before the problem).

One followup to the problem. The same problem reoccurred late yesterday after I shut my computer off then turned it back on. Prior to shutting it off, the computer seemed to be acting a little unusual, but most noticeably while I was digitizing video in Final Cut Express. I was having trouble getting through the digitizing, that is, the digitizing would randomly stop. This usually means that the computer has too many open programs running, since the digitizing process tends tie up the computers processor. I still had problems digitizing even with most programs off. That's why decided to shut the computer off and reboot, however I immediately encountered the original problem again when the computer started up. This time I had to toss out "com.apple.systempreferences.plist" to get going but prior to that I did something else. After getting into the "home" users desktop through the "guest "user, I cleared out about half of the desktop (put files in folders or deleted files on the desktop). I had almost a 1000 files/folders on the desktop. I felt that this number of files on the desktop might be causing a slowdown and might be causing other problems. Anyway, since doing that, the computer seems to be running fine. I've shut down and restarted several times without a problem. Hopefully, it will continue to work.

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