Error trying to go from OS9 to OS10 - /etc/ not a directory

i have both OS10.4 and OS 9.2.2 installed on my mac g4.
i have programs in both i use often, so i need to switch back and forth.
when i try to startup in OSX from OS9, i get the screen with the apple and little twirly thing at the bottom,
and then i get a black screen with the error message:
/etc/master.passwd : not a directory
/etc/profile : not a directory
and nothing works. i can't finish starting up.
when i type in list commands at the -sh-2.05b# prompt,
i can find and get into the etc directory, though,
but i can't get anything to happen.
i have to restart in OS9,and then re-install OSX.
when i reinstall OSX, i can restart between OS9 and OSX once or twice, and then eventually i will get that error message and have to reinstall OSX again.
i looked on my hard drive, in OS9, and on the OSX installation disc, and the /etc/ directories do exist, and they both have a file called master.passwd,
and the OS9 /etc/ directory has a file called profile.
so i don't understand what it is looking for and why it can't find it; or why sometimes i can startup and sometimes i can't.
please help!
thank you very much
g4 Mac OS X (10.4) OS 9.2.2

As I recall, and the KB article rather delicately leaves out, one of the things that Norton Disk Doctor Kevorkian does is mess up those symbolic links. So if you are running it periodically while you are in OS 9, that is the source of the problem.
Francine
Francine
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