Frozen Desk Top

On starting up, the computer goes through its preliminaries, including the startup sound and the progress bar. Then immediately afterwards it brings up the photograph I use as my background screen. The cursor is free but there is nothing on which to click. Then after a few seconds a magnifying glass icon in a blue circle on a small white rectangle appears in the upper right corner of the screen. Clicking on this changes the arrow cursor to the spinning round color wheel. Moving the cursor off the icon changes it back to the black arrow cursor but nothing else happens.
I have been able to boot off the original CD, which uses OS 9.2 and also the the Tiger CD. With that I used Disk Utility but nothing was fixed.
I am afraid to reinstall for fear of loosing the data on my hard drive.

Hi Donald - Hardware-wise, you'll probably want to post topics in this forum, which is dedicated to TiBook Usage. Since this would seem to be a software issue, let's see if we can help you here....
You may have a problem with certain start-up items. One way to begin to look into that is to start up in to 'safe mode' which disables these items, giving you the opportunity to see if your machine boots successfully without these items loading, and if necessary, to remove them from System Preferences > Accounts > Login Items. To boot into safe mode, turn your machine off, then press the power button and immediately after you hear the startup chime, press and hold the Shift key until you see the spinning gear icon appear on the grey splash screen.
It takes a couple of minutes longer than normal to boot into safe mode, and you will be asked to log in before you get to the Desktop. Once the machine has fully booted, go to System preferences and remove any unneeded or suspect login items.
Restart as normal to return to your normal desktop.
Also, check to make sure that all of your third-party apps and device drivers are up to date, especially if you have any peripheral devices attached on the occasions when you are unable to start up. There are additional third-party startup items located in /Library/Startup Items which may also be contributing to your problem. Do not remove any items from the folder /System/Library/Startup Items, though, as these are a part of the OS.
Good luck.
Tuttle

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The login screen appears even if you usually login automatically. You must know your login password in order to log in. If you’ve forgotten the password, you will need to reset it before you begin.
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