I cannot open my hard drive...help please

I cannot open my hard drive.I have no idea why not.
Everything was perfectly fine this morning, I shut down, and nothing was different.
Later today I turned on the computer again to do some work, and when I click the hard drive icon it will not open, it seems that the whole finder or hard drive "resets" or "redoes itself"
No error message displays of any kind.
I have not installed anything or changed anything at all recently.NOTHING.
I already tried putting in my Tiger disc, and ran first aid, verified and repaired the preferences, and verified and repaired the disc, and after taking out the Tiger original disc...no, that didn't help either.
As far as I can tell everything else is fine, Safari works, my calculator and calendar and I Tunes and all that works fine.
HELP

UUUGGHHHH ... On a friends computer right now...
I had to start all over from the disc, after I, as the "other user" with (Admin. priviledges) went and tried to change the permissions of "original me", and it wouldn't let other user/me #2 do it, and so I kept trying, but then I couldn't get back into original me, it wouldn't let me login, kept saying you cannot login at this time, and I couldn't stay on Safari in user#2 long enough to try and write you before it "blinked out", so, I put in the original Tiger disc from the beginning and did an an archive install,BUT did not check the keep users and settings checkbox, so, my budget and things I was working on were kept intact....YEAH...but the original problem was never determined.
I hope that does not happen again, I still don't even know what caused it all in the first place.
THASNK YOU SO MUCH !!! for trying to help me.

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