How to FORCE "force quit"

Earlier when trying to restart my iMac 2.66, Mail would not quit, nor would Safari. I pulled down force quit dialog from the apple menu -- no dice. They would not quit.
I tried right clicking the application icons in the dock and choosing force quit. No dice.
I ended up just turning the iMac OFF and restarting. I don't like to to that. How can I FORCE a force quit? Thanks. Dan

Hi Dan,
In general, when you have such problems, do the following:
A. Repair permissions. You can do this with disk utility
B. Do a file systems check. To do this, restart your computer, hold down cmmd-s key combination at the chime, the screen will go black and lot of stuff will scroll down. at the end, type fsck -fy and hit return. Once completed, it will give a message if files were repaired. if repaired, repeat the process till you get OK message.
Most of the time, above tasks usually solve the problem. If fsck throws up a problem that does not go away then I think disk replacement is the way to go.

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