I'm having problem at startup with my emac

1.42 Ghz 512MB RAM  running OS 10.4.11. Usually freezes at the blue screen b4 sign in or will just stay at the  spinning wheel on the grey apple screen.
Tried booting from the restore dvd that came with the computer, got to disk repair and ran it. It found a minor problem that was repaired, then went back to same old ways as soon as I turned off the computer and tried to start up again. I did a safe boot this morning and managed to get on, but I don't think this will last either as I did the same thing about 5 days ago and the problems just keep coming back at startup. Any ideas?

One way to test is to Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, Test for problem in Safe Mode...
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive
Reboot, test again.
If it only does it in Regular Boot, then it could be some hardware problem like Video card, (Quartz is turned off in Safe Mode), or Airport, or some USB or Firewire device, or 3rd party add-on, Check System Preferences>Accounts>Login Items window to see if it or something relevant is listed.
Check the System Preferences>Other Row, for 3rd party Pref Panes.
Also look in these if they exist, some are invisible...
/private/var/run/StartupItems
/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons
/Library/LaunchDaemons

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