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My computer's been behaving really strangely today. First, I tried to open Quicksilver from the Dock, and Quicksilver's missing. (I've deleted nothing, and used the program yesterday.) This morning I was able to use Firefox. I turned off my computer in the middle of the day, and when I turned it on tonight and tried to open Firefox, I get nothing -- it's like the icon in the Dock is a broken link. The application's missing. And it's not in the Trash -- it's nowhere to be found! The aliases in the Applications folder, when clicked, turn up the "original item could not be found" error message.
Aside from this, my computer has recently -- in the past two weeks -- taken to giving PDF and Word files downloaded from email strange file names (strings of characters). When I click on the icon on my desktop, it opens, that icon disappears, and a new icon appears with the proper file name.
I've run ClamXav a couple of times and found nothing, but I have just run it thru my documents and my Applications folder.
Any tips? I'm really worried about my data. I know I'm running a dinosaur of an OS, but I hope someone will know what's going on regardless.
Thanks for the help!

Thanks, Ali B, for all your help.
Firefox was on the Desktop.
I now have NO aliases in the Applications folder. I only had Firefox ones, and I've deleted them.
I have a 15" silver PowerBook G4 with a 1.5 GHz PowerPC G4 processor, 1.25 GB DDR SDRAM. Of the RAM, only 256 MB (in the lower slot) is original; 1 GB is installed by me, but I installed it well over a year ago, so I don't think that can be the issue. The Hard Drive is 74.5 GB, with 6.4 GB available. (It might be worth mentioning, though it's embarrassing, that I pushed the HD to having only about 500 MB of available memory about a month ago, and then deleted and compressed a whole bunch of stuff - particularly music - in order to have a functioning computer.) I am running Panther 10.3.9. I have no peripherals connected right now, though I sometimes connect a Lacie external hard drive; this hasn't been connected when experiencing problems.
I can't think of anything special that's happened betw when the PowerBook functioned successfully and when it hasn't. It might be worth mentioning that on two occasions, in the past 6 months, the computer has refused to start up at all, with the HD making that sickening pathetic rotating noise that all computer owners dread. However, I checked the disc and it has reported that the HD is fine. Obviously I'm running on borrowed time, but I'd like the computer to stay functional for a few more months.
No system upgrades. I've installed a few programs, notably the new Firefox and Quicksilver.
The Mac's shut down overnight, usually, though these days I'm afraid to shut it down and mostly let it sleep. I haven't run routine maintenance procedures (apparently I'm a bad computer owner, though I didn't realize it), but on the advice given above I ran the maintenance scripts just yesterday. Turns out the monthly one hadn't run since 2005. But I've done it manually now....
Ahh, the mystery of this Mac. I'll hopefully locate a copy of the system disc tomorrow and can then do whatever that will allow me to.
Best,
beijingmac

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