Classic won't start

Hello all, hope you can help me.
Classic stopped opening. Poof. It used to open just fine, but now nothing. It's not hanging or crashing, it's simply not starting at all. No little startup window, I've repaired permissions, I've tried starting with extensions turned off, I've run Disk Warrior. Still nada. I can use 9.2.2 as my startup disk and boot directly into that OS, but can't get Classic open from OSX.
This has been the latest in general funkyness going on in my system. Most of the stuff in the past has been pretty benign, but this hinders my ability to get work done. This started last week shortly after trying to install printer drivers for Epson Stylus CX4200, which caused all the content on the right side of my menu bar (airport status, sound, time, etc) to disappear. Uninstalled those drivers and the menu bar is fine (although not in other users). Was able to install those drivers with no problem into my PowerBook and now can only print over the network with the printer plugged into the PB.
Tried running Printer Setup Repair and rid myself of all the printer files to start from scratch, as was suggested by Epson's support, but haven't gotten that to help at all.
Suggestions to fix one or all of these problems much appreciated. Should I Archive and Reinstall or am I beyond what that will repair?

As I said, permissions repair of the 9 folder was not too hopeful. There are other things going on with your system.
It could be bad blocks that have corrupted system files on the current hard drive. It could be a bad install of QuickTime or iTunes or who knows what??????
If it was just happening on your user then I'd say it was a preference problem but you say that things work, after a fashion, on your user but not the other users.
If it were me, I'd at least have a boot cd/dvd so that if the entire system goes out you can still get things up and running and I'd be backing up user files.

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