Finder menu does not appear on desktop

I downloaded new itunes 7 and qucktime applications to my G4 running OSX 10.4 and now when I log on I get dock and can access safari and system preferneces from dock icon but nothing else. In addition, the icons that used to appear on desktop, including hard drive are no longer visible. What do i do?

I'm afraid I'm having a great deal of difficult
understanding what you mean, but as far as I can tell
you have quite a few serious problems and the easiest
answer is probably to back up your files to an
external drive, then use your install disk to do an
Archive and Install of the system. See this:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301270
This will give you a new system while preserving your
settings and third party applications. Make sure you
read the instructions carefully so that you DO
preserve your settings.
Francine
Francine
Schwieder
im actually having the same problem as this person is and i posted a question but no one is answering me...so i was wondering if there was any way could help me? i notice that you say to back up the files and then reinstall Mac OSX but how can you back it up onto an external drive if you cant even see the external drive on the desktop and cant open folders

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