Finder not responding correctly

I started having some problems with Finder and other "core" applications recently. All I have been able to find are symptoms of a problem, but not what could be causing the issues. Here are some of the symptoms:
- When I press the power button, the normal shutdown menu appears, but before I am able to click on any option, the computer essentially resets--the background changes to the log-in screen, before changing back to my background, after which the taskbar reloads, and all of my startup applications open. All applications that were open when I pressed the power button quit.
- The same happens when I press cmd-alt-esc, the command to open the force quit dialog, except the force quit menu never appears.
- When I go to "Force Quit" from the Apple dropdown menu, nothing happens.
- When I try certain things in System Prefs., the application freezes, such as searching Finder for a startup application to add to login items.
- No hotkeys relating to Finder work. For example, normally I press ctrl+D to open my downloads folder, or ctrl+X to open a finder window.
- I can still browse Finder by opening a new Finder window from the File dropdown menu, or by pressing cmd+N, but many icons are messed up, with the same broken image file appearance.
- Strangely enough, my iTunes hotkeys also don't work. All of the rest of them do.
If you have any ideas, let me know! I'm stumped on this one! I know this computer is old, but I'm not ready to give up on it yet. I'm running OS X 10.4.11, in case that matters.

Also: as far as I can tell, Finder won't mount anything. Too nervous to try an external drive though!
Thanks,
Henry

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               1%          Carbon Copy Cloner
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/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist
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Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.

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I tried to verify and repair the disk using Disk Utility; it doesn't work neither. it says it cannot repair the disk.
Well there's your problem! If you have unfixable disk damage on your boot drive, it's going to cause file corruption which can in turn cause many widely varying problems.
First thing you need to do is make sure you've got a good backup. If you don't have any backups, it could be too late... with disk damage, any of your files could be corrupt at this point. But do what you can. See my [Mac Backup Guide|http://www.reedcorner.net/thomas/guides/backups> for help with that.
Second, you can try to repair the drive using a different tool, such as [DiskWarrior|http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/index.html] or [TechTool Pro|http://www.micromat.com>. However, IMHO this is unlikely to help if you're already experiencing symptoms of file corruption, which you are. But it's something to try. (I don't actually own either of those utilities, because I always make the assumption that if my hard drive is badly damaged, so might my system files be, so on the rare occasion this happens I just go straight to the step below.)
If nothing else works, you'll need to erase your hard drive and reinstall everything from scratch, then restore your data from backups. You'll want to restore as little as possible from the backup when it comes to settings files, as those could be damaged and could bring instability back into your squeaky clean new system.

Finder Not responding after result of moving all my music HELP

I am really panicing here and you probibly get this allot but....
i was moving some duplicate songs into the trash and selected the wrong files to delete and moved all my music to the trash so i thought no problem i will get it out of the trash and put it into a temporary file so that it does not clutter my desktop so i did that. then i moved all my files by accident and now they sit on my dekstop, the problem now is that my music is on my desktop but i cannot acess my finder as it is not responding and taking up all my cpu. i don't want to be drastic and replace my os to solve the problem becuase i really need my music back. and i don't want to lose any of my music as me being like everyone else have not backed it up.
is there a solution to this where i don't have to replace my os or lose any of my music. because my finder is not responding i cannot acess spotlight properly and get all my music back help please anyone i am realy panicing here :>

The exact string given will move the current desktop folder to a folder named OldDesktop which is located directly inside your home folder; this is the folder in the Finder's sidebar with the house icon. Once done, the Finder should become more responsive, and you can retrieve the items you want on your desktop from the OldDesktop folder. Nothing will be deleted from the computer.
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