HELP please my imac DV+ is about to die....

iMac DV+ Mac OS X (10.4.7)
Here's the story:
i bought an imac DV+ long ago and it worrked well all the time.
Now its completly messed up. almost every application is crashing, the performance is not available any more.
I've done everything: Ran the Disk Utility (repair disk and Directories) , ran onyx to check permissions and delete cokies and so on, i even used speedtools do defrag my 20 GB HD.....
Also i emptied my PRAM but even this wont have made it better.
Indeed 55% are in use but anyway. Even the smallest apps are slow like **** (which were running perfect just some time ago).
Well my question is what can i do to slove this?
Thank you all anyway for breaking ur heads bout that and my apologizes for my bad english

I would suggest to download OnyX and run all the scripts and maintenance/optimization options to see if you can improve a little bit your iMac.
Second suggestion: post in the iMac CRT section: maybe someone there can help you better.
Ciao,
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