Help-- Unsolved Mystery with my powerbook G4

My powerbook was accidently unplugged while I was streaming video from the internet. Since my battery no longer works, I had to restart my computer. When it restarted it made the chime and showed the grey screen, then a blue screen, then my desktop image, that's it. It will now only show my desktop image, but does not display either the top menu bar or the bottom dock. I have no way to access finder or any of the applications. It also does not show any of the files that were on the desktop. I can move the mouse around but that's about it. But the weirdest part was when I left it on that screen for a while, I came back to my computer and there was a dialog box that said "The Application Spotlight quit unexpectedly" but when I tried to select one of the buttons, it would not respond and I had to force quit.
I have tried starting up in safe mode and it shows the same problem. The night before this problem I did install updates for Adobe CS3 design suite. I don't know if that's related. I can't install any discs directly into my laptop since that stopped working a while ago. I do have an external hard drive that I was using as my time machine. Which I quickly unplugged from my usb when this problem started.
Any suggestions.... I'm completely lost.

To start from your external disk, connect it with FireWire and hold alt-key right after the chime, the disk should show up on the screen after a short delay an can be selected as startup volume.
To access the disk from another Mac, connect the two with FireWire, make sure all other FW-devices are unplugged. Start the Book holding t-key after the chime, a FW icon should appear on the screen and the disk should now be available on the other Mac.
The symptoms are rather odd, I guess somehow your finder has get lost, a classical paradox though:-)
That just brings me to another idea: does cmd-F bring up a search window? If so, type "com.apple.finder.plist" without quotes, trash that file with cmd-delete and restart the computer, maybe it helps.
Regards & good luck P

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