I wish to start all over- how can I

Imac crt blue 500 mhz, 340 mb ram. got it from a friend for my 8 year olds. It was cleaned out by the owner of his apps and information. It original had installed 9X on it, included with it was original retail Cds for Tiger, panther and jaguar, having the read some posts here it appears that Jaguar was the safest to use,/ considering the age and memory of the unit. Well I went an installed 10.2.8 and it worked flawlessly, it was cool. Coming from a PC guy with no former apple experience outside of an ipod. I did several of the recommended upgrades as I was prompted thru software update. The very first time I powered down/sleep and restarted the unit- it went into a dreaded grey screen, I have tried safe mode to know avail. I am convinced that maybe the best thing to do now is to reload and start over. Is there a reset, or command key at start up that will allow it to boot up to "out of the box factory" settings? I would much rather reload everything including the firmware updates and start clean.

Hi spitfisher
Whilst I am an ardent Apple fan there is one good thing to say about windows XP and that is its ability to reset, which you are probably referring to. Unfortunately there is no such function on Mac OS X, but in the new 10.5 Leopard there will be this ability, (whose application is called Time machine).
But this doesn't help you.
Short of doing a reinstall, try repairing the disk. You probably know the method if you have been reading these pages but just to refresh:
To do this: Insert the Install Disk 1 into the drive and then select Restart, then continue to hold down the C key until the Apple logo appears.
This will take you to the installation software, but you do not want to install.
Select your language, then go up to the top menu bar to Utilities and navigate to the Disk Utilities application.
Select the start up drive, then follow the instructions in the First Aid pane where you can click on Repair Disk.
If it finds errors, repeat the process until it reports no errors.
After these repairs, quit the application, and restart normally.
Once restarted normally run Repair Permissions. from the Disk Utility application found on your hard drive in Application/Utilities.
regards roam

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