Cant open finder window or hard drives or trash

hi all ,bit of a disaster today,any suggestiond really appractiate, its so helpful this forum,
i was working today editing with final cut ,when suddenly the hard drives on my desktop went missing(i couldnt see them)they were still working and i could import files from them,
i tried to open photoshop from my dock,it wouldnt open,i tried to delete the preference file from the library going through spotlight,but i need to check that the trash as i fear the 501 folder thing and that it hasnt got files i may need and i cant get into that through the dock.
when i restart it i get a message saying"an exception of class nilobject exception was not handled the application must shut down"
i have accessed disk utility through spotlight and all hard drives are there but my 2nd internal sata drive comes up in red and says problems,i removed it and restarted it but same problem.
i bought the mac with osx tiger pre installed,
what shall i do?
anyone had a similar problem?
cheers
simon

Hello, ummm... I'm not sure what is going on but first thing, locate your Apple CD's and see if you can boot off of them and open disk utility to attempt to repair the drive permissions as well as the drive it self. You might not be able to do it boot off of the hard drives since it sounds like you're having operating system problems.
Also it seems like you have a powermac g5, if so try reposting your question here http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=108 in the PowerMac G5 category. The users over there may have more experience with Power Mac G5 computer problems than over here in the Power Mac G4 Category.

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