Freezing in Leopard, Tiger and Panther

Hi, I'm pretty new to Macs, so excuse any of my possible ignorance. I searched in the forum, but could not find any topic specifically answering my question.
I have an old eMac (1.25 ghz, 768 mb ram) I purchased from a friend. Upon my first plug in, I decided to upgrade to Leopard 10.5.4 (He was running a previous version of Tiger). After installing it, I found that it kept freezing after start up. At first I thought that it was related to running too much stuff at once, until it crashed on the desktop with no applications running. This freezing occurs anywhere from a minute to almost an hour *if I'm lucky* after startup.
Anyway, I decided that maybe I should run a clean install on Leopard. After all, I didn't really care about any of the stuff on my friend's hard drive. But no. That didn't solve anything. I then proceeded to go to my disk utility and repair the disk and the permissions. THAT didn't solve it, either.
Finally I figured, "OK, maybe my version of Leopard is just corrupt". I did a clean install and reverted to Tiger. For about five minutes, I was happy...until it froze once again. So then I was like, "Screw it, I'll just try Panther". Nope. It seemed to freeze more and more the more I downgraded.
I'm using Leopard once again for a bit, simply because it seems to freeze the least there. I know this is the Tiger forum, but can anyone here help me with my problem? Please?!

Hello,
I have been having some freezing issues the past few weeks on my G5 tower. It happened after the last major update, even had a few kernel panics. I searched around the forums here and found the easiest fix for me which was running AppleJack http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/07/beijing2008_preparationsthre.html
If you follow the instructions very closely you might get some relief. I ran it yesterday afternoon and so far, (keeping fingers crossed) no problems.
I know we have differing equipment, but AppleJack will work with many Mac OS X versions.
You have to completely shut down, then roboot holding down the 'command' and 's' keys after the first chime upon boot. When screen is up, then type in 'applejack auto restart' - it starts to clean up your system and checks and repairs disks. (will automatically restart computer after fixing all) Best to read all the directions before trying.
Good luck. Let us know if it works.
ps, i'm running Tiger, 10.4.11

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