I have no dock & hard drive not visible

I have got an old G4 ibook. it starts up o.k and the screen saver comes up and so does password box. but after that there is no dock visible and no hard drive etc to be seen. I have looked at it as a target disc and it is all there and even run diagnostics on it and it seems fine. the curser moves fine but I can't do anything with it. Anyone got any ideas as to what I can do?

managed to do it by this which I found
Here's how to reset your OS X password without an OS X CD. You need to enter terminal and create a new admin account:
Reboot
Hold apple + s down after you hear the chime.
When you get text prompt enter in these terminal commands to create a brand new admin account (hitting return after each line):
mount -uw /
rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
shutdown -h now
After rebooting you should have a brand new admin account. When you login as the new admin you can simply delete the old one and you're good to go again!
As of yet. I have not been able to get rid of old account and need to as it has loads of stuff on it and is filling up the hard drive almost to capacity. I don't want to log on in old account as am afraid that it will revert to having no dock & visible items again.
how can I erase old account
Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_reset_the_administrator_password_on_an_iBoo k_G4#ixzz1KCJ3mbCO

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