Having problems with menu bar! NEED HELP

I'm having some serious problems with the finder menu bar. When I click on the blue apple, it won't show anything! It just highlights the blue apple without a pull down menu. Same goes for the Window pulldown menu. Also, under finder. when I click empty trash, or do the equivilent keyboard shortcut, it won't empty the trash. I have to ctrl click on the trashcan and empty it that way. Please help me fix my finder, or else I'm going to have to reformat and start ALL over which I really don't want to do. Thanks!
PS This is on a Dual 1.42GHZ G4 Tower w/ Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card and 2GB (4X512mb) ram. I also updated to 10.4.7 from 10.4.6 to see if that fixed the problem, and no dice! Thanks!

Well if the problem occurs in two accounts then it is systemic. When did the problem begin? Was it with a software update, sch as from 10.4.6 to .7? If so, try reapply the update using the Combo updater.
IF that doesn't work you can re-install 10.4 using the Archive and Install method, which does not wipe your disk, does not require reinstalling all your applications etc, However, BACK UP YOUR DATA FIRST, and read up on the A&I before you do it.
Hope this helps
Regards
TD

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