Help! Starting up in terminal/Unix

When I start up my G5, instead of starting the OSX GUI, it seems to be starting up in Unix - ie I get a black screen with BSD/Darwin, asking me to log on. When I do, I get 'Welcome to Darwin', but I don't know how to start up OSX!
I have not chosen any different startup options or anything and am at a loss to know how to actually get it to start up in a way I can use. I don't know enough about the Unix side of things to work like this or even start up the GUI. Could someone let me know how to get it working??

Update: Sorry if I posted this in the wrong forum. As it was asking me to log in when I normally log in automatically, I thought it was something to do with my account.
Anyway, from reading what I could find about this, I thought that maybe it was starting up in Single User mode. However, this does not appear to be the case. I have tried Single User mode, and this gives quite a lot of text on the screen at startup giving system information. The other times I just get the text 'Darwin/BSD (Macintosh.local) (console)
Also, I am unable to reboot. (If I try the reboot command, it says 'operation not permitted') and the only way I can restart is by holding down the power button.
I have tried resetting the PRAM, starting up from the install CD to repair disk permissions etc and also starting in safe mode, and none of these has made a difference. Any more ideas?

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