Issues installing 10.2.3 and upgrading to 10.2.8 on an iBook G3

Hello all
We have recently acquired an older iBook (500 MHz, dual USB, I think) from a colleague, and we are trying to make it functional as just an internet computer or possibly as a word processor (i.e. install MS office on it). Nothing too spectacular or anything.
Anyway, I did a clean install of 10.2.3 from a bootable version (not from the startup disks), and things were pretty happy. I then proceeded to connect it to the internet and upgrade to 10.2.8. The first round (via software update) went well (installed 10.2.8, new quicktime, etc.). After restart, software update found all of the security updates, so I downloaded those. Upon restart after installation of the security updates, the machine seemed slower, and I got a lot of the spinning beach ball of death. I tried to shut down the computer, but it was frozen. I tried a force shutdown to no avail, and I finally disconnected the power supply and removed the battery.
Upon restart, the hard drive now appears stuck. The gray screen with the apple comes up, as does the cursor with the circle thing, but the hard drive reads to a point, then clicks and starts over. This happens on a continuous loop, no matter how many times I use the power key to shut down and try again. Also, I cannot boot from cd, whether I hold down c or use the option key. It still only boots to the gray apple screen, and it looks like it wants to boot from disk (the drive runs), but eventually it tries to recognize the hard drive and the same thing as above (hard drive appears stuck) hapens. Any idea on what happened, and are we screwed, or is there anything we can try?
Thanks in advance any help.
iBook G4 1.2 GHz and an old PowerMac G3 133MHz Mac OS X (10.3.9)
iBook G4 1.2 GHz and an old PowerMac G3 133MHz Mac OS X (10.3.9)

John,
I think we can say that the OSX 10.2.8 installation is hosed, whether by the security updates or by the forced power-down.
This brings me back to a forced power-down I had to do years ago on a Unix minicomputer, left the devices and interface cards in an awful state. I had to disconnect everything, power up and power down again to get it able to boot normally again.
I think you will have to get the cd-boot working again, at least try a few more times, with an original CD, even just to run DFA. With the other kit you have, I can see that you're not a beginner, so we could talk about jumping into open firmware and trying to boot from CD from within there. But try the CD boot a few more times before we have to resort to this.

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