IMac G5 boots into a hardly usable 'safe' mode.

Hello,
A lot has happened so I'll try to be brief. Initially ipod updater locked up the iMac (and trashed my ipod folders) until the only option was to use the power off. On trying to restart it would get to the grey screen (Apple icon and spinning gear) and go no further. I booted into safe mode which didn't really help, I then used the install disk and verified permissions and repaired the Mac HD several times (one error was reported initially but now all reported as ok).
However, now when I do a normal start, i.e. touching nothing on the keyboard during start up, it starts up and seems to log me in to a regular screen, but the icons like connection strength, language, bluetooth etc do not appear. In the top left the Apple icon appears as does 'Finder', but they don't work, if I click on them they turn blue but no drop down menus. I can open Finder from the dock and iTunes and they work ok, but everything else like Safari, iDVD, iPhoto all crash before they even start and I get the option to submit a report to Apple.
So I guess my questions are,
1) What has caused this, what is the problem?
2) Is this booting me into a 'safe mode' option? If so how can I just boot into the iMac normally?
3) Is running fsck worthwhile even though I've run disk utility which reports everything is ok?
4) Any other options apart from a reinstall?
Many thanks for any help and suggestions.
Regards,
Ian Goose

Hello Ian, welcome to Discussions. You might want to take a look at this, which will give you some insight into methods of dealing with your problem.
Good luck,
Miriam
Rev A 20" iMac G5, 15"iMac G4, 15"iMac G3 DVD   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

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    I feel like an idiot, but I'm too happy to be down on myself. While in DiskUtility from the Installation DVD, I repaired the disk permissions (which I had overlooked earlier). That did it. Everything is working fine now.

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