HELP! OS X won't boot - Blue Screen at startup... No mouse, nothing...

I have a PowerMac G4 MDD running OSX 10.4.8 (or 9)... About a month ago, it suffered a kernel panic, and upon restarting, it wouldn't load OS X. Now whenever I start the computer, it displays the white screen with the Apple logo and the spinning gear, then it switches to a solid blue screen and stays there. There is no mouse on the screen and the keyboard is unresponsive.
The computer will boot in safe mode. I have tried removing login items in the account preferences and third party items from the StartupItems folders. But still, I get the blue screen.
I've tried resetting the PRAM. I booted from the install disc and repaired the startup disk. It said no repairs were necessary. I've repaired permissions on the disk as well. I also booted from the Hardware Test disc, but still, nothing.
Yesterday I did an Archive and Install from my Tiger install disc, hoping that this would fix things, but it didn't. As a last resort, I'm considering wiping the hard drive and doing a fresh install of OS X.
Does anyone have any advice? Has this happened to you too? Does this sound like a hardware or software problem?
PowerMac G4 MDD Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Do you have a firewire external drive, or other bootable backup? Try booting from another drive & see if the problem persists. Run Disk Warrior while booted from its CD, or from an alternate drive. I don't think it will help, though, because Archive & Install should create a new directory. If the problem persists when booting from an alternate system, you most likely have a hardware problem. You could install a fresh copy of OS X on your alternate drive to make sure (but not if it's your only backup!).
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- 2009-03-13 17:00:05 +0100 Error al copiar archivo en la ruta /Volumes/Macintosh HD 1/Users/migueldelrioalvarez/./.Trash/Google Earth.app/Contents/MacOS/libgdal.dylib. Input/output error (5)
- 2009-03-13 17:00:05 +0100 Error al copiar archivo en la ruta /Volumes/Macintosh HD 1/Users/migueldelrioalvarez/./.Trash/Google Earth.app/Contents/MacOS/libgemath.dylib. Device not configured (6)
- 2009-03-13 17:00:05 +0100 Error al copiar archivo en la ruta /Volumes/Macintosh HD 1/Users/migueldelrioalvarez/./.Trash/Google Earth.app/Contents/MacOS/libgeobase.dylib. Device not configured (6)
- 2009-03-13 17:00:05 +0100 Error al copiar archivo en la ruta /Volumes/Macintosh HD 1/Users/migueldelrioalvarez/./.Trash/Google Earth.app/Contents/MacOS/libgoogleearth.dylib. Device not configured (6)
- 2009-03-13 17:00:05 +0100 Error al copiar archivo en la ruta /Volumes/Macintosh HD 1/Users/migueldelrioalvarez/./.Trash/Google Earth.app/Contents/MacOS/libgooglesearch.dylib. Device not configured (6)
- 2009-03-13 17:00:05 +0100 Error al copiar archivo en la ruta /Volumes/Macintosh HD 1/Users/migueldelrioalvarez/./.Trash/Google Earth.app/Contents/MacOS/libgps.dylib. Device not configured (6)
- 2009-03-13 17:00:05 +0100 Error al copiar archivo en la ruta /Volumes/Macintosh HD 1/Users/migueldelrioalvarez/./.Trash/Google Earth.app/Contents/MacOS/libIGAttrs.dylib. Device not configured (6)
- 2009-03-13 17:00:05 +0100 Error al copiar archivo en la ruta /Volumes/Macintosh HD 1/Users/migueldelrioalvarez/./.Trash/Google Earth.app/Contents/MacOS/libIGCore.dylib. Device not configured (6)
- 2009-03-13 17:00:05 +0100 Error al copiar archivo en la ruta /Volumes/Macintosh HD 1/Users/migueldelrioalvarez/./.Trash/Google Earth.app/Contents/MacOS/libIGExportCommon.dylib. Device not configured (6)
- 2009-03-13 17:00:05 +0100 Error al copiar archivo en la ruta /Volumes/Macintosh HD 1/Users/migueldelrioalvarez/./.Trash/Google Earth.app/Contents/MacOS/libIGGfx.dylib. Device not configured (6)
- 2009-03-13 17:00:05 +0100 Error al copiar archivo en la ruta /Volumes/Macintosh HD 1/Users/migueldelrioalvarez/./.Trash/Google Earth.app/Contents/MacOS/libIGMath.dylib. Device not configured (6)
- 2009-03-13 17:00:05 +0100 Error al copiar archivo en la ruta /Volumes/Macintosh HD 1/Users/migueldelrioalvarez/./.Trash/Google Earth.app/Contents/MacOS/libIGOpt.dylib. Device not configured (6)
- 2009-03-13 17:00:05 +0100 Error al copiar archivo en la ruta /Volumes/Macintosh HD 1/Users/migueldelrioalvarez/./.Trash/Google Earth.app/Contents/MacOS/libIGSg.dylib. Device not configured (6)
So the thing is that I didn't even have GoogleEarth in my iBook anymore! I deleted it long time ago as it didn't work properly, I forget what the problem was but I thought it was thoroughly erased. Apparently not. So I thought if I installed the newer version of GoogleEarth I might be able to get over this problem (although the FireWire stall problem might not be related to this at all, I've never had problems with it so it was my only guess).
Now comes the thorny part. The problem is I was twitching so many things that I don't remember exactly what happened, but the result is that, after installing GoogleEarth again, and having some trouble while doing so, I decide to delete it again, I try to do the migration again, and it's a no-go. But things get even worse: now my iBook won't even boot. I can see it if I open it as a hard drive through fireWire (T when rebooting), although it will eventually get stuck and I have to shut down and reboot+T again. But if I reboot normally, it won't get past the blue screen right after the Mac logo+wheel gray screen. The mouse appears, then disappears, and that's the end to it.
I've tried repairing the disc with DiskUtility, both with the original MacOSX CD and the DiskUtility on my new MBP through FireWire connection, before it gets stuck (no problems found), repaired the permissions (same same), reset the firmware (rebootopt+cmd+of, then reset-all), reset the PRAM (rebootopt+cmd+pr), I've tried to reboot in Safe Mode (it gets stuck in the Apple logo+wheel screen for a really, really long time, then lets me enter my password, and then gets stuck again in a blue scree, this time with a default desktop background image, then the plain blue screen, and all the while a repetitive sound in the hard drive as if stuck in reading something, which is the same sound as when I reboot normally and gets stuck), and tried DiskWarrior (but it won't work because of the FireWire issue, I think).
I've pulled out the logs from the iBook library and, although there are many things, I will just show you the ones related to GoogleEarth, since it seems like the origin of the problem.
*This is the Console.log:*
Mac OS X Versión 10.4.11 (Fase 8S165)
2009-03-13 17:02:00 +0100
2009-03-13 17:02:00.613 loginwindow[66] FSResolveAliasWithMountFlags returned err = -43
Mar 13 17:02:01 ibook-g4-de-miguel-del-rio-alvarez configd[37]: bootpsessiontransmit: bpf_write(en2) failed: Operation not permitted (1)
Mar 13 17:02:01 ibook-g4-de-miguel-del-rio-alvarez configd[37]: DHCP en2: INIT transmit failed
EyeTV Helper version 2.5 build 266
Mar 13 17:02:10 ibook-g4-de-miguel-del-rio-alvarez SystemStarter[47]: Malformatted parameters file: /System/Library/StartupItems/AppServices/StartupParameters.plist
Mar 13 17:02:11 ibook-g4-de-miguel-del-rio-alvarez SystemStarter[47]: Malformatted parameters file: /System/Library/StartupItems/NetworkTime/StartupParameters.plist
2009-03-13 17:02:17.216 SystemUIServer[81] lang is:es
Mar 13 17:02:30 ibook-g4-de-miguel-del-rio-alvarez mDNSResponder: NAT Port Mapping (LLQ event port.): timeout
2009-03-13 17:02:46.559 pbs[75] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Resources/Languages/en
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
2009-03-13 17:02:46.632 pbs[75] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Resources/Languages/en
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
"system locale: 'es_ES'"
ServerStateFactory::CreateState "start"
ServerStateFactory::CreateState "checkforupdates"
ServerStateFactory::CreateState "waitformajorupdate"
ServerStateFactory::CreateState "downloadfirmware"
ServerStateFactory::CreateState "pinexists"
ServerStateFactory::CreateState "generatepin"
ServerStateFactory::CreateState "devicesync"
ServerStateFactory::CreateState "generatetoken"
ServerStateFactory::CreateState "getpinstatus"
ServerStateFactory::CreateState "neterror"
Could not parse stylesheet of widget 0x1a59580
Could not parse stylesheet of widget 0x1a5b440
setting working state from "Initializing" to "Closed" , on success
currentWorkingState set
Set the application.
USB notification thread started
Could not parse stylesheet of widget 0x1a59580
Could not parse stylesheet of widget 0x1a5b440
2009-03-13 17:20:29.139 loginwindow[66] * NSTimer discarding exception 'launch path not accessible' that raised during firing of timer with target 43a3f0 and selector '_handleIdleTimer:'
load_hdi: timed out waiting for IOKit to finish matching
dyld: Library not loaded: @loader_path/libQtCore.4.dylib
Referenced from: /Volumes/GoogleEarth-Mac-Plus/Google Earth.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Earth
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/Volumes/GoogleEarth-Mac-Plus/Google Earth.app/Contents/MacOS/libQtCore.4.dylib: unknown file type, first eight bytes: 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
/Volumes/GoogleEarth-Mac-Plus/Google Earth.app/Contents/MacOS/libQtCore.4.dylib: unknown file type, first eight bytes: 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
Mar 13 17:28:26 ibook-g4-de-miguel-del-rio-alvarez crashdump[257]: Google Earth crashed
Mar 13 17:28:27 ibook-g4-de-miguel-del-rio-alvarez crashdump[257]: crash report written to: /Users/migueldelrioalvarez/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Google Earth.crash.log
*This is the loginwindow.crash.log:*
Host Name: ibook-g4-de-miguel-del-rio-alvarez
Date/Time: 2009-03-14 16:59:37.611 +0100
OS Version: 10.4.11 (Build 8S165)
Report Version: 4
Command: loginwindow
Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow
Parent: launchd [1]
Version: 4.7 (4.7)
Build Version: 1
Project Name: loginwindow
Source Version: 11700500
PID: 182
Thread: 0
Exception: EXCBADACCESS (0x0001)
Code[0]: 0x0000000a
Code[1]: 0x011b6010
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x903c5458 CSStoreGetUnitCount + 12
1 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x91e12ef4 LSHandlerPref::Load(LSDatabase*) + 40
2 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x91e12e70 LSDatabaseClean(LSDatabase*) + 108
3 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x91e10f70 LSContextInitClient(LSContext*) + 400
4 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x91e10da4 _LSContextInit + 76
5 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x91e1e58c _LSOpenStuff + 88
6 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x91e314a0 LSOpenApplication_Common(LSApplicationParametersV1 const*, AEKeyDesc const*, ProcessSerialNumber*, FSRef*) + 188
7 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x91e1e520 LSOpenFromRefSpec + 244
8 com.apple.loginwindow 0x0000db94 0x1000 + 52116
9 com.apple.loginwindow 0x0000d99c 0x1000 + 51612
10 com.apple.loginwindow 0x0000ba38 0x1000 + 43576
11 com.apple.loginwindow 0x0000a758 0x1000 + 38744
12 com.apple.Foundation 0x9fcdcd40 __NSFireMainThreadPerform + 276
13 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x902e2928 __CFRunLoopPerformPerform + 104
14 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x902b2300 __CFRunLoopDoSources0 + 384
15 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x902b1830 __CFRunLoopRun + 452
16 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x902b12b0 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 268
17 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x9eb11b20 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 264
18 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x9eb111b4 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 380
19 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x9eb11020 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 96
20 com.apple.AppKit 0x9250f734 _DPSNextEvent + 384
21 com.apple.AppKit 0x9250f3f8 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 116
22 com.apple.AppKit 0x9250b93c -[NSApplication run] + 472
23 com.apple.loginwindow 0x00005aec 0x1000 + 19180
24 com.apple.loginwindow 0x00005404 0x1000 + 17412
25 com.apple.loginwindow 0x0001965c 0x1000 + 99932
Thread 1:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9004a7f8 machmsg_overwritetrap + 8
1 com.apple.loginwindow 0x0000bda0 0x1000 + 44448
2 com.apple.loginwindow 0x0000bbd4 0x1000 + 43988
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9002b908 pthreadbody + 96
Thread 0 crashed with PPC Thread State 64:
srr0: 0x00000000903c5458 srr1: 0x000000000000d030 vrsave: 0x0000000000000000
cr: 0x82022222 xer: 0x0000000000000004 lr: 0x0000000091e12ef4 ctr: 0x00000000903c544c
r0: 0x0000000000076000 r1: 0x00000000bfffd5d0 r2: 0x00000000011b6000 r3: 0x0000000000444750
r4: 0x0000000000000188 r5: 0x0000000000000000 r6: 0x0000000000000000 r7: 0x0000000000000000
r8: 0x0000000000000000 r9: 0x0000000001140000 r10: 0x0000000071fefeff r11: 0x0000000042022228
r12: 0x00000000903c544c r13: 0x0000000000000000 r14: 0x0000000000000001 r15: 0x0000000000000001
r16: 0x0000000000000000 r17: 0x0000000000000000 r18: 0x000000000000649b r19: 0x0000000000000000
r20: 0x00000000000471c4 r21: 0x00000000000000ee r22: 0x0000000000000000 r23: 0x0000000000000000
r24: 0x0000000000000000 r25: 0x0000000000000000 r26: 0x0000000000000000 r27: 0x0000000000000000
r28: 0x0000000001821a00 r29: 0x00000000bfffdc10 r30: 0x0000000001821a00 r31: 0x0000000091e12ee4
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0x9fa5b000 - 0x9fa5bfff com.apple.Accelerate 1.2.2 (Accelerate 1.2.2) /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Accelerate
0x9fa5d000 - 0x9fb14fff com.apple.QD 3.10.27 (???) /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ QD.framework/Versions/A/QD
0x9fb51000 - 0x9fb9efff com.apple.CoreText 1.0.4 (???) /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ CoreText.framework/Versions/A/CoreText
0x9fbc9000 - 0x9fc7afff ATS /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ ATS.framework/Versions/A/ATS
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*And this is the crashdump.crash.log:*
Host Name: ibook-g4-de-miguel-del-rio-alvarez
Date/Time: 2009-03-14 17:00:31.871 +0100
OS Version: 10.4.11 (Build 8S165)
Report Version: 4
Command: crashdump
Path: /usr/libexec/crashdump
Parent: crashreporterd [208]
Version: ??? (???)
PID: 252
Thread: 0
Exception: EXCBADACCESS (0x0001)
Code[0]: 0x0000000a
Code[1]: 0x02e63010
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x903c5458 CSStoreGetUnitCount + 12
1 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x91e12ef4 LSHandlerPref::Load(LSDatabase*) + 40
2 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x91e12e70 LSDatabaseClean(LSDatabase*) + 108
3 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x91e10f70 LSContextInitClient(LSContext*) + 400
4 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x91e10da4 _LSContextInit + 76
5 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x91e162c0 _LSCopyInfoForNode + 484
6 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x91e246f0 LSCopyItemInfoForURL + 100
7 crashdump 0x00007b04 0x1000 + 27396
8 crashdump 0x00007b84 0x1000 + 27524
9 crashdump 0x00007e1c 0x1000 + 28188
10 crashdump 0x0000804c 0x1000 + 28748
11 crashdump 0x00003ddc 0x1000 + 11740
12 crashdump 0x000040b4 0x1000 + 12468
13 crashdump 0x00005b2c 0x1000 + 19244
14 crashdump 0x00005c0c 0x1000 + 19468
15 crashdump 0x000024f4 0x1000 + 5364
16 crashdump 0x0000239c 0x1000 + 5020
Thread 0 crashed with PPC Thread State 64:
srr0: 0x00000000903c5458 srr1: 0x000000000200d030 vrsave: 0x0000000000000000
cr: 0x82228222 xer: 0x0000000000000004 lr: 0x0000000091e12ef4 ctr: 0x00000000903c544c
r0: 0x0000000000076000 r1: 0x00000000bfffda20 r2: 0x0000000002e63000 r3: 0x0000000002b3e360
r4: 0x0000000000000188 r5: 0x0000000000000000 r6: 0x0000000000000000 r7: 0x0000000000000000
r8: 0x0000000000000000 r9: 0x0000000002ded000 r10: 0x0000000071fefeff r11: 0x0000000042228228
r12: 0x00000000903c544c r13: 0x0000000000000000 r14: 0x0000000000000000 r15: 0x0000000000000000
r16: 0x0000000000000000 r17: 0x0000000002b3d7a0 r18: 0x0000000000408f40 r19: 0x0000000000000000
r20: 0x0000000000000000 r21: 0x000000000040ade0 r22: 0x0000000000000008 r23: 0x00000000bffff680
r24: 0x00000000bfffe520 r25: 0x0000000000000000 r26: 0x00000000bfffe530 r27: 0x0000000000000000
r28: 0x000000000184b000 r29: 0x00000000bfffe060 r30: 0x000000000184b000 r31: 0x0000000091e12ee4
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One more thing: the rolling sound on the iBook's hard drive is something that has been going on for a long time, for instance when I opened Safari, it would get the multicolored wheel out, and this sound would start as the whole computer was paralyzed, but eventually it would move on and I could use Safari just fine (of course, since this happened every time, I switched to FireFox). The noise it makes now when stuck in the blue screen is the EXACT same noise as back then. That's why I think it's related to GoogleEarth, because my sturdy, 6-yr-old iBook had been working fine until I tried to migrate the data and the GoogleEarth dylib problem arose (no hard drive problem is my guess - and hope).
I would appreciate any help with this, since I can't really get anything out of the iBook. The FireWire connection will be interrupted constantly, and I can try to backup all the info by rebooting repeatedly and copying manually but it's a pain and some parts of the system just will cause the FireWire connection problem to appear quicker, hence giving me no time no copy them.
Thanks in advance, if you need any further info I'll be glad to provide what I can.
Miguel

sig,
I'm sorry the post was so long but sometimes it pays off to provide all the info at once rather than have people ask about things one has already tried
I think I'm going to do just that: save what data I can, try to do the basic migration manually (Mail account and mailboxes, Internet bookmarks, and some application preferences), and Install the Mac OS X from scratch.
Thanks!

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