Hand-me-down ibook problem

My wonderful sister gave me the older of her two ibooks. I'm a brand new mac user, just feeling my way around. The other night, I started playing around with GarageBand (love it!), when I received an error message and the computer shut down. I thought it was just because I was out of battery juice (Was unplugged). So now, I can't seem to open the application anymore. The icon is there, and I seem to be able to select it, but it won't open, and the little black arrow won't appear under the icon. So.......I see there's a file in "find" called GarageBand.crash.log from the date I was using it. Did I really crash Garage Band? Are these apps that fragile? Most importantly, how do I get it back? My sister's out of the country for a year (hence the gift), and she didn't give me any CDs with it. Any thoughts?

Hey Bellaluna and Welcome to Apple Discussions,
What does that crash log say?
Also this is a 500 iBook G3 with how much RAM? ( go up under the Apple - about this Mac - Memory )
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