Dock not appearing, can't open HD

It's a 17" PPC 1ghz Powerbook. Has been working fine. Suddenly I boot up and the dock will not appear (I had it set to autohide but cannot get it to come out)
Further, if I try to open Mac HD it does not open, the desktop menu bar "blinks" as if Finder was restarting.
I was able to access the HD by booting it in firewire (hold down T) mode and was from another mac able to put an alias for disk utility on the desktop. Then when I booted disk utility would run from the newly placed alias. I repaired permissions and started in safe mode. Still the same thing.
Can't even open an info window on the HD.
I ran tech tool from DVD and it reported no problems with the disk.
The powerbook is about 6 years old - could it be the internal battery? I replaced the actual battery a year ago.
any help on this mystery is appreciated.

If all the above fails, then it appears to be time for a relatively painless Archive & Install, which gives you a new/old OS, but can preserve all your files, pics, music, settings, etc., as long as you have plenty of free disk space and no Disk corruption, and is relatively quick & painless...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120
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