HELP PLEASE! software problem?

PLEASE help!!
I turned on filevault, and all was well. It did everything it was supposed to do, and all was fine. i continued to use it as normal- internet mostly, and then i shut it down.
the next day, i turned it on, the screen with the white box and blue bar that shows the system start up screen came up as usual, but it froze when the blue bar was full indicating that OS X was nearly finished loading.
i tried a billion times to turn it on, tried the safe mode etc, to no avail. i took it to an apple centre today to fix- they re-installed it with the start up cds which i did not have with me as i am currently in beijing studying.
it was fine, everything was backed up, i did not lose anything except for my norton antivirus which is no problem.
but i just tried to do a Disk repair to make sure all was ok, and i cannot click the button as it is faded out so it is not clickable.
I repaired the disk permissions with no problems.
it is working fine now, except that i cannot repair the disk which worries me a lot, and also when i click on open internet connect, it will open and load, but freeze.
also- when i download certain items, e.g. widgets, it says that it cannot mount.....? that decompression has failed.
if anyone has any suggestions or ways to make my powerbook well again, please help!!
my brother has the start up disks with him, so if any solutions involve using them it will be no problem at all.
any help will be very much appreciated, thanks in advance!
michelle.

1. re: iPhoto Diet. You'd have to take that up with the developer of iPhoto Diet. Perhaps your iPhoto Library needs to be rebuilt? See "iPhoto 4 or later: Rebuilding the iPhoto Library."
2. re: Previous Systems folder. Sounds like you'd previously performed an Archive and Install of Mac OS X. That can generally be trashed if everything is working correctly after you perform an Archive and Install. If you just performed an Archive and Install before these problems arose, then you might want to hold on to it for a bit: see my "General advice on performing an Archive and Install" FAQ for some important tips on the Archive and Install process.
3. re: The other problems (Internet Connect, widgets). Difficult to say. If I had to guess, I suspect the Previous System folder is the result of the "reinstall" performed by the "Apple Centre" you cited in your first post, i.e. they may have reinstalled via Archive and Install. However, it's not clear if they subsequently also installed any necessary updates. Your profile shows you are using 10.4.7 (10.4.8 is current). What version of Mac OS X does "About This Mac" (Apple menu > About This Mac) report as installed on your Mac?
Since they performed the reinstall, you may want to take it back to them. If you now have your original discs from your brother, bring those along as well.
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
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