Help !The world icon at start up

I've never had a problem with my Powerbook G4. Yesterday, I get this world icon that blinks at startup and won't go away. What's the deal? No new downloads. No new software. Tons of memory and disc space. Please help

Hi, Michael, and welcome to Apple Discussions.
I think what's happened is that your Startup Disk preference has gotten corrupted somehow, and you just need to redesignate the desired OS for startup. Start up from your Tiger installer DVD and open System Preferences>Startup Disk. Select the copy of Tiger on your internal hard drive as your startup OS, and then close System Prefs.
Now open Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. Select the hard drive (the line with the drive manufacturer's name and model number in it) and click the First Aid tab. Click the Repair Disk button. If any problems are reported to have been repaired, run the Repair Disk routine repeatedly until a "clean" run is achieved (no problems found or fixed).
Restart the Powerbook, holding down the trackpad button during startup until the DVD is ejected. The Powerbook should then start up normally.

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