Dual g5 1.8 - 10.4.8 - 10 min. start-up, constant crashing in Finder.

Hello all,
Anytime I run an application, the Mac freezes up. No kernel panick, just normal slow-down. If i leave the computer for 10 minutes and come back, its completed the task assigned it, but I'm unable to do anything else.
-start-up takes 10 minutes, and the fans blare like crazy during
-mail.app won't start - period
-firefox crashes after 2 minutes
-all other applications launch, but fail to appear.
I can force quit everything if I wait long enough for the finder to load, but that just brings me back to what it looks like after boot.
Just this morning I was working on it with no problems! Help!

There's an application called Data Rescue, I haven't used it myself but I've seen good things about it.
Good luck, and please post back with results,
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