Doesn't mount files- Restart computer and properties aren't saved-no songs

Okay so my computer has been acting crazy lately.
its a powerbook G4 1.5ghz 17" running on os x .4.8
There are times when I restart my computer, everything seems to be lost. The mail has lost its properties. I have to put the email back again with the pop and stmp servers as well. I tunes loses the songs (although theyare saved on SONGS) they don't show up on itunes. Everytime I download something a dmg file...When i double click on the just downloaded file...it won't mount. REASON NOT RECOGNIZED it says. I have stuffit but yet it won't work...i used to have the icons on the bar getting bigger when the arrow was close to 'em Now it doesn't do it. I did some research and heard that the new airport update 4.2 is what could create all this. I put os x dvd on and reinstalled osx. I did the updates with everything but the airport update...same thing is happening...its driving me crazy because i have a presantation "Powerpoint" due tomorrow I need to work on and I started it yesterday now its saying the file is corrupted. I can't even download Boomerang back up data because it won't mount...I'm going to pick up my PC Desktop from home tonight and come back to the dorms to finish the project...Anyone can help?
I'm getting frustrated with macs now especially knowing Its only the intel processors that can run windows to the fullest(with bootcamp)..models that came out right after i bought mine...
Nice commercials though..-PC Ur coming to a sad realization, Cancel or Allow...More like mac should re-thinking about that..having thousands of 1.6ghz PB failure with their logicboards. Not mantioning the 1.5ghz PB inverter board failures.

Hi, jorgengun. Try running the Apple Hardware Test CD that came with your Powerbook, and see whether it reports any problem with your FireWire controller or port. It's possible that your port has gone bad, in which case the timing was probably just coincidental — it's unlikely that anything that happened on the PC could have caused your Powerbook's port to be damaged.
If you don't have Apple Hardware Test, a TechTool Pro or TechTool Deluxe CD has similar hardware testing abilities. (TTD was supplied by Apple to the purchasers of AppleCare Extended Protection plans, and is not available otherwise as far as I know. TTP is a commercial product.)
If you don't have any of the above, and all of the devices that no longer work when connected to the port did indeed work in the past, take the Powerbook to the Genius Bar at an Apple Store, or to a local Apple dealership, and have the port tested.
A bad port would necessitate one of two things: a logic board replacement, or the purchase of a CardBus-slot Firewire card.

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