Help! Buggy - Pull down menus not highlighting, more

I've got symptoms!
First, the pull-down menus were not highlighting after clicking
on with mouse. I tried tech tools, it ran into problems about
15 minutes in. I decided to do an Archive Restore.
Now the menus still do not highlight (after all the updates
loaded as well), and the cursor does not switch to specific
cursors when I mouseover links, and when I open a new
program, it reverts to the finder window and I have to click
the program forward from background to start using it.
Any suggestions? Ideas? Anyone else experience this?
I upgraded ram about 4 months ago.
Thanks
Tom

Hi Tom:
One other thing to look at.....
Open disk utility. Highlight (not select) your HD - not your own files. At the bottom there is something called S.M.A.R.T. If that says anything other than "verified," you have a HD problem.
If the RAM is non-Apple, I would pull it and see if the problems go away. I worked with computers for over 50 years, and still have no idea why some things happen when they do!
Running the archive and install again would not hurt. I do not use tech tools. I do remember that there were some problems with that software a couple of years ago, but I do not know anything about its current status.
Barry
P.S. The reason I quizzed you about the OS X 10.3 is that only a few people are using it now (that is not a criticism, just an observation).

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