Consistent "This Application has Unexpectedly Quit Messages"

I have a 15" Powerbook G4 800MHz with 1gb of RAM (I upgraded from 512 to 1gb a couple of years ago). Recently it has been quitting out of applications consistently. It started when I opened iTunes and was in the store trying to buy an album, everytime I got to the buy now screen it quits with the "Unexpectedly Quit" message. I thought it might be the actual iTunes program so I trashed the existing one and went to apple.com to download the new one. Again, when I got to the DOWNLOAD NOW button, it "Unexpectedly Quit" yet again. On all of these I have shutdown and restarted multiple times, shut down for the night and restarted the next evening, Repaired Disk Permissions, etc. What could be causing it to repeatedly quit? It basically renders the machine useless. I am quite a novice on the "fix it" side so assuming I don't know something is probably safe. I have been out here on this discussion forum looking for the topic that really covered my issue and I haven't found one. So I am posting this.
thanks in advance!!

An update on my previous post. I tried to reinstall itunes from the cd that came with it. It installed successfully and then when I went to find it in APPS and add it to my dock the system crashed
Here is the full message:
System Failure: cpu=0; code 00000008 (unknown failure code)
Latest Crash info for cpu0:
Exception state (sv=0x2A122780)
PC=0x00094080; MSR=0x00001030; DAR=0xF740C402; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x00093F8C; R1=-xFC14FB47; XCP=0x00000098 (System Failure)
backtrace terminated - unaligned frame address: 0xFC14FB47
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception State (sv=0x2A122780)
PC=0x0008C784; MSR=0x02143000; DAR=0xF740C402; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x0008AF24; R1=0xFC14FC27; XCP=0x00000008 (0x200 - Machine Check)
backtrace terminated - unaligned frame address: 0xFC14FC27
then it had another list of exception states, then it lists a Kernel Version:
Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0 with an attached date
Then a Memory Access Exception (1,0,0)
an ethernet mac address
ip address
and Waiting for debugger connection.
After this it is doing nothing. It is frozen on the screen. I'm not sure those numbers and letters will help anyone identify the issue but I thought I'd try.
Any help would be HUGELY appreciated!!

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