G4 problems and as solution can i upgrade wifi on powerbook

Basically can i upgrade the wifi speed of my powerbook.
I have a G4 with an airport extreme attached, and my wii connects to the network too.
My G4 is on its last legs i think, the power supply is dodgy and this has already fried the usb ports of my apple lcd monitor, and for about a year the usb ports on the G4 only work with mouse, keyboard, bluetooth, card reader, and not with a usb 2.0 drive. My usb scanner blew up, guess that wasnt a coincidence.
I even added a usb 2.0 pcmcia card which operates exactly the same.
I have an ijoy media player (usb 2.0) so what ive had to do to get tv programs onto it is download on the G4, copy onto a firewire lacie pocketdrive and then attach the ijoy to the powerbook which has a usb 2.0 pcmcia card, and the pocket drive via firewire. A long way for a shortcut but all good.
In the last few days, the G4 has had big problems with the pocket drive (which is fine with the powerbook). It doesnt mount. The mouse cursor goes all juddery when its plugged in and then the mac crashes. Trying to get to a solution in between the crashes, using disc utility i can see the drive but it wont mount. When i try instead to format it, it crashes. It obviously hadnt done anything about the formatting as when i plug it in again to the powerbook there are still the last files on it.
I tried restarting into techtool pro. If i do this with the pocket drive plugged in it wont start up, freezing on the startup screen. If i plug the drive in when the techtools is open it cant see it.
So problem number 1, is my G4 power supply about to die or could there be something else wrong? If it is the power supply, is there a cheaper solution than spending a few hundred euro on a new apple one for an almost obsolete machine? Bear in mind my monitor is an apple 17" so if i replace the machine i have to replace the monitor.
Possible solution in the meantime to make sure the wife gets her kitchen nightmares et all, the only way i can think to get the files from G4 to powerbook so then onto ijoy, is a wired or wireless network.
So i can either pull out the ethernet from the router and stick it into the powerbook, will this create a network immediately?
Or i can use wifi. Is this easy? I figure it will be slow as the powerbook is 802.11b. Can i add a usb wifi 802.11g card (no point in n as the airport extreme box is g) and will this make much of a difference?
Sorry long ramble, thanks for any advice...

I do not see any indication of the Mhz/Ghz in the batter door.  I have attached pictures of the interior.  Hope this helps.  I do not, necessarily, want to recover any data.  My intention was to only wipe existing data, and then use this older unit just for accessing the internet.  Since I could access the wireless network before the wipe, it did not occur to me that I would not be able after the reinstall.  Thanks

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