Computer-illiterate mac user needs help with .rar and unrarx!!!

i am trying to download .rar movies from mediafire and then open them. i've read the forum and watched youtube instuctional videos on extracting these, and other kinds of movie files and despite this, i can't get them to work. the files pop up on my "downloads" list and when i click on them, i inevitably get some kind of error message after i try and open them. i have downloaded stuffit, unarchiver and unrarx. with .rar files, i keep getting a message "there are no files to extract" despite using the password and following all the steps. any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks also tried that it does hangs the screen back to how it was but the background is now my screen saver with the photoshop tool bars around. But the docking area is still not visible and when I open a file it opens it as sep screen and layer and not as part of docking station? Very strange
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import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.text.DecimalFormat;
import javax.swing.*;
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System.exit(0);
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I know there are many posts on this topic and i have
probably read and tried them all. I am a new user to
Mac (got sick of PC's). I recently purchased a used
iMac G4 with office installed and was upgraded to
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classic on my computer due to some programs that my
kids bought and have tried to reinstall (seems to go
all the way through)it using my disk and also a
updated software restore I found in one of the posts
but to no avail. Still when opening up classic it
states that I need to install Classic since there is
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