Ill-advised OS X upgrade...?

Hello, hope I'm posting this in the right area.
I'm running a first revision (pre-April 2004) 1GHz eMac that shipped with Jaguar. My supposedly tech-savvy friend decided to 'help' me in my absence by 1) boosting me up to 512MB RAM using sticks from an old machine of his (which seems to have worked just great), and 2) installing Panther from disks that came with his 2004 iMac. Hmm.
This latter move seems to have caused me some fairly irritating problems: numerous applications (for example iMovie and Classic) now crash with a 'quit unexpectedly' dialogue box during or immediately after launch. In addition, dialogue boxes that pop-up during normal use of several otherwise-running-ok applications - for example in Illustrator and Photoshop, asking if you want to save while closing a file - now crash the applications with the same 'quit unexpectedly' dialogue box appearing. Apart from this pop-ups-causing-immediate-crashes problem, though, most of the software I have still works fine...and many of the new features in Panther do, too.
The problem I have now is that I do not have my original Jaguar disks any longer, so I can't (I don't think?) do what I'd normally do, which is just backup all my software and files, then do a clean re-install of Jaguar.
My question is, I guess, this: can I end the misery by simply going out and buying my own version of Panther (or indeed Jaguar or Tiger), or alternatively, might I need something like DiskWarrior to patch things up from here?
Thanks for your time!

Thanks very much; looks like sound advice! Thanks for the tips on getting a compatible version too, that's useful. Since you mention Leopard - would that run ok on my system as I outlined it above? Or would I need a massive RAM hike to get it running smoothly? (I'm on 512MB at the moment)
Oh, and I notice that, on the site in the link you posted, they're careful to say that - for example - the 10.4 discs require 10.3, etc etc. Would you advise me to go for 10.3 first, as that's the version I now have problems with, whereas my 10.2 worked ok? Or could I hope straight to a 'legit' version of 10.4 from a stuttering 10.3? Come to think of it, can I even hop straight to a legit 10.3 if I'm now running a dodgy 10.3 which has effectively over-written a legit 10.2 that I no longer have the disks for..?
Cheers again!
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