Finder not responding and missing desktop

When shutting down this computer all of the icons on the desk top
started flashing and a window opened for a few seconds then closed on
it's own. This happened for several minutes. I pushed the reset button
to restart and when it came back up all of the desk top icons were gone
and the "finder" icon on the toolbar would not respond....holding the
cursor over the icon and right clicking will bring up the "open" command
but clicking on it does nothing.
The other applications on the toolbar seem to work fine but it seems
like the hard drive (and the external drive) have been shut down or
maybe erased. Have you any idea where to start looking to fix this?
After poking around last night, I came across the logs in "about this computer". I don't understand all of the lists, but one at the end shows
Computer npcdaemon[109]: Can't Launch Kernel Extension (-2).\n
This particular entry is from this morning when I started up the system.
I will take your advice and go to the apple store. We have the disks for a re-install and for "restore" but I don't want to run those until we can back up some of the stuff from various applications.

Might try this, Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.

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