Cant restart / shut down Powerbook G4

My powerbook works fine with the exception that I cant shut down. I go to apple>shutdown or restart, the icons on the desk top disappear and it looks like it is going to shut down but then the pin wheel starts to spin in the center of the screen indefinitely. I have to force shut down with the power button every time. Anyone know what might be the problem?

Hold on now we may still have a few trick up our sleeves...
1st - If you are having trouble with the drive and can not boot... the try to boot int safeboot (safemod): http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1455 Safemode will automatically run disk verification and I believe try to fix any errors. So try to boot into safemode and if it is successful then reboot and see if that helped.
2nd - If safeboot does not work then you can try to boot into single user mode: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1492 Once you are in the Single user mode type the following:
fsck -fy <then press enter>
If this command returns with an error or reports that is found an error but fixed it then run the command again and repeat until the drive checks good.
Once you are done with the repair or feel satisfied, type 'reboot' and press enter.

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Hold on now we may still have a few trick up our sleeves...
1st - If you are having trouble with the drive and can not boot... the try to boot int safeboot (safemod): http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1455 Safemode will automatically run disk verification and I believe try to fix any errors. So try to boot into safemode and if it is successful then reboot and see if that helped.
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fsck -fy <then press enter>
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Once you are done with the repair or feel satisfied, type 'reboot' and press enter.

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Which OS X is installed on your Mac ?
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5957261&#5957261
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Of course, I actually USE my iDisk, and will be leaving it on. But, at least I know now how to work around the restart/shut down issue. (Note: this morning my iMac had locked up, after the iDisk mounted/unmounted repeatedly during the evening, so I rebooted and switched iDisk syncing to manual. More to follow...)
I hope Apple adds this fix to their 10.5.2 update next month.
Note: This is such an important issue, that in addition to adding it to a reply in another Shut Down thread, I thought I'd post it as a separate topic here.

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Did Build 10061 revert back to 8.0's non-obvious approach to restart / shut-down?

After installing Build 10061, it took some hunting to figure out how to Restart and to Shut-Down.
IIRC, part of the awful 8.0 was that it was difficult to figure out how to Restart / Shut-Down, along with a host of other usability issues.
Well, I want to get back to my Win-7 partition on my desktop, after wresting with Build 10061's Spartan browser.
And it took me 5+ minutes to figure out how to accomplish that. I know I can be slow and a "dim bulb", but am I the only one unhappy at this change? Am I missing something obvious on how to get out of Build 10061.
IIRC, Win 8.1 got to be relatively easy to Restart, and Builds from the 9000's to the previous 10049 were easy to Restart.
And now, my experience is that I was back to needing to do Ctrl-Alt-Delete and then notice the widget at the lower right ... which has the fly-over hint of Shut-Down when I really want to Restart.

Thanks, especially for the screen shot.
I infer by "Windows Logo", you mean what I think of as the "Start Button".
I'm not on the Build 10061 partition right now, so I can't check if that works for me. It seems I tried RMB on the "Start Button / Windows Logo", and that didn't offer the option of Restart.
Also, from a Usability perspective, having that choice of words is flawed. The Menu showing up from the RMB click mentions two possibilities (Shut down or sign out), but then there are actually 4 possibilities on the "fly-out menu (also Restart and
Sleep).
My speculation is that I may have noticed the option of "Shut down or sign out" and was still scratching my head about "so, how do I Restart".
I'll check the next time I boot to the Build 10061 partition.
I think the other Reply post may show another way to Restart, but that screenshot (thanks!) looks different.

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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5957261&#5957261
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I hope Apple adds this fix to their 10.5.2 update next month.
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