Long desktop rebuild

I recently purchased a refurbished iBook G3. It came loaded with OS 9.2 and 10.2., as well as the OS CD's for both systems. I also received a CD containing AppleWorks 6, which I decided to install. Before the installation was complete, a message appeared that the desktop was being rebuilt. This took an hour to complete!
I was told by the company I bought the iBook from, that possibly a desktop file was corrupted, causing the long rebuild. They suggested reinstalling 9.2, from the CD which they supplied, and this would get rid of the corrupted desktop file(s). After that, a desktop rebuild took about 5 minutes. So far, so good.
Then, the other day I downloaded TechToolLite, and wanting to be sure everything was up to par, I used TechTool to rebuild the desktop again, the idea being that a TechTool rebuild is more thorough, because it actually deletes the desktop files and rebuilds them from scratch.
I'm 45 minutes into the rebuild and the "rebuilding desktop" progress bar is only about a quarter of the way complete. This has made me nervous.
Does anyone know why the rebuild should take so long, based on the above info?
Thanks for any thoughts on this.

I'm chiming in here too, I use Disk Warrior although I have tt pro too I still prefer DW... another little tool I use in between Disk warrior use is called Trashdesktop.
It is free and is really great for desktop rebuilding. You instal the program, reboot to ensure it is working then when the desktop is reached you simply drag/drop the closed hard drive icon(s), if more than one or partitioned then restart once more.
It doesn't look like it did anything but what it did do was deposit the invisible database file into the trashcan. When you reboot it recreates brand new ones from the things you have installed on your computer and touches nothing else.
Then you can use DW for an even more thorough cleaning once a month. I use Trash*Desktop once a week because I edit docs constantly for a website i administrate at and my own plus artwork, you may not need to use it as often depending on how many times you adjust docs and such.
http://mypage.bluewin.ch/opus/freeware/td/
to download it you need to go to the bottom of the page.

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