I can't use my iBook

Hi all,
I previously made a post " my ibook wont startup - whatever i do!!" and explained that the only thing effective that i could do was boot into single user mode. I did this and attempted to delete some files so i could do an archive and install (as i had v little space on hd).
FIRSTLY, I have tried to delete files by typing "su" and by typing "chflags nouchg,noschg <name of file here>" and then "y" for overide but it tells me that it is a read only file. Can someone please give me link to a good tutorial on how to use single user mode? ie how to get into my user account and delete files in there (my user account id the administration account).
SECONDLY, I just tried to boot into verbose mode and it stopped. here are the previous lines so that you may be able to tell me what is going on:
Creating RAM Disk for syslogd
hdik: IOKit timed out waiting for driver to load: error e0002d6.
hdik: attach fail: error e0002f0
syslogd: cannot create /var/run/syslog: Read-only file system
syslogd: child pid 113 exited with return code 1
Creating RAM Disk for Crashreporter
hdik:IOKit timed out waiting for driver to load: error e0002d6.
Launching Crash Reporter
com.apple.SecurityServer: database /vardb/CodeEquivanceDatabase opened READONLY (R/W failed errno=30)
com.apple.SecurityServer: error writing entropy file /var/db/SystemEntropyCache
com.apple.SecurtiyServer: Entering service
This is where the system has now stopped. no keystroke changes anything and all i can do is force the computer to turn off by holding the power button down.
If anyone has some advice on how i can fix my computer without completely erasing hd i would be very very much appreciative.

How big is your external hard drive? Is it a FireWire hard drive? You might plug in your external FireWire hard drive to the iBook then startup from the Tiger install disk and install Mac OS X 10.4 on the external hard drive. That way, when you startup from the external hard drive, hopefully your iBook's hard drive will appear on the Desktop and you can copy some of your files out of the iBook to the external hard drive.
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