Finder freaking out

alright. yesterday, i was my itunes stopped reading the majority of my music. it dropped the list of music from 250G to 18G all of which is on my external HD. i have had a similar problem before and have always found that simply moving it into a newly created folder and erasing the old folder that contained the music to work.
this time the system kept freezing up. then my finder shows up "not responding" in my force quit menu which i clicked in an effort to get the machine unfrozen.
i clicked "relaunch" for finder and it did: 3, then 4, then 5 times. eventaully a whole screen running down the force quit screen reading "finder". i did a machine restart thinking perhaps it jsut needed to be a reset.
on restart, the finder application will not open at all, nor will any items appear on my desktop. i can access only the programs that appear in my dock which all shut themselves down if i use them to "open" and file and try to look through the CPU HD at all.
following some advice from these forums, i did a disc utility repair from the startup disc. disc verify and disc repair all went smoothly, but repair disc permissions gets to about 99% then freezes up. i restarted and tried running it again and it freezes again.
i tried not starting from boot disc and going to the regular screen but finder still will not open nor will any items appear on the desktop.
i can get a dozen copies of the word "finder" to pull up in the force quit menu if i click the finder icon on the dock several times, but it never actually opens.
i run OSX (10.2.8) emac power pc G4 1Gig with 728 memory.
hopefully someone out there has some sort of idea what might be going on.

This was corrected after running Disc Warrior (which found a 31% error rate in the directory), then upgrading to mac OS 10.4 tiger, running repair permissions, then rebooting from the tiger disc (restart holding "c" key). then i ran repair hardrive which found several errors, ran it again and found none. then, i ran repair permissions (still from the boot disc) and it found a few more permissions errors. ran it again, found none. then i restarted from disc warrior as boot and ran direcotry repair again, which found 15% directory errors. ran it again when it found < 1% errors. then i restarted from harddrive and ran repair permissions once again, this time it found a couple, and repaired them. this resolved the issue.
hope this helps anyone else with a similar issue.

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