Looking for advice on fixing my Ibook

Hello all,
First post here and it's going to be a long one, so I apologize in advance for that and thank anyone who manages to wade though to give advice. Trying to get as much info into this to hopefully help you help me.
I have an Ibook G4 that was handed down to me in the last year due to my old comp dying. It was working perfectly until approximately one month ago.
The issues started with the original hard drive. Without doing anything new on my computer I started randomly having strange issues with various apps. I rebooted the computer and got the kernel panic message telling me to reboot the computer. I did so and then immediately went to the ?/finder icon screen. After trying Disk utility from the disks that came with the laptop, I just got errors when trying to repair the disk and repair permissions was not even available.
I took my laptop into my local apple store for advice and after they saw what it was doing they told me my hd had failed and offered to happily replace it for somewhere around $200. I happily thanked them for their help and went on my way.
I picked up a western digital 160 gig eide drive and installed it myself without problems. I was able to install the os from the included disks and then upgraded to 10.4 plus all downloaded updates. It worked fine for a couple days and then I decided all was well so started adding music to itunes since I finally have the hd space to add new music to my ipod. After a couple days of use Itunes started giving me errors while changing songs in Itunes and while clicking on any screen other than Itunes. Firefox then started acting strangely so I decided to reboot.
I was unsuccessful at getting fully loaded in again so I booted from the included disk and repaired permissions and disk using disk utility. This fixed the problems temporarily, however itunes was immediately giving me the error messages again. Continue forward a bit and now I get errors in disk utility saying that it failed to repair the disk.
I then gave up and decided to just wipe the drive and start over again. I used the erase the writes 0's over the whole drive which errored out towards the end. I suspected I might just have a bad drive but decided to reboot and just erase (basic quick one), partition, and install the os. That install also failed towards the end of disk one install. Went into best buy where I bought the hdd for advice and they agreed it sounded like a failed hdd too. Bought another one (to return the prior one for a full refund after I swap it out) and install it.
At this point I am getting pretty comfortable to dismantling this laptop so it only takes me around 1.5 hours or so fortunately, however as soon as I got the hd installed and tried to format in disk utility it wouldn't even show up on the screen even though I could hear it spinning. I was suspicious of the hd cable since it just doesn't seem like there is enough of it to make a good connection to the logic board, so I took the bottom of the comp off and just messed with the cable/logic board connection a bit. This was able to get the hd showing up in disk utility.
Got 10.3 and downloads installed because I don't have the 10.4 disk with me right now. Every time the computer rebooted during the update process, it went to the ?/finder icon screen. I had to hold down the power button to shut down and then power back up after which it would boot up fine. Already concerned about what this meant but just went with it.
Due to the issues I haven't tried installing anything else or even using many apps. I downloaded firefox and a couple other dmg's in preparation for upgrading the os in the morning. I moved a couple of those files to my partition successfully but after trying to move a final one the finder locks up. Nothing would load after finder reloaded so I rebooted. Now the computer just goes to the gray screen with the apple on it and a loading circle on the bottom but never gets past it. I also periodically get the kernel panic reboot computer message on this screen as well (not every time though)
My next step for trouble shooting will be trying to pick up a new hd cable, however this may be difficult without access to a computer I can do online ordering on.
Now for some of my thoughts. After all of that and many many hours spent using google and searching these forums I have seen a couple suggestions which could apply. The kernel panic messages could indicate that I am having memory issues, however I just can't see where that would cause files getting corrupted and causing me to have to repair permissions and disk. I can see where the hd cable failing could be causing issues, but I don't understand how that could account for everything when I don't even move the computer and it starts having issues.
I am to the point of desperation with this computer. I want nothing more than to just throw it on the ground and jump on it and maybe introduce it to a sledge hammer, however I just cant fit in purchasing a new computer right now. Paying my local apple store hundreds of dollars to try to fix something they may not even be able to fix also just doesn't seem like a viable option when I feel capable of fixing a large portion of issues myself (more familiar with pc's at this time unfortunately though).
Thanks to any of you out there who make it through this book where I probably give far too much detail. I am open to any advice you have to give to me at this point for where to go from here.

There's the possibility that the new hard drive you purchased has a problem. The only way to really check that is with another computer with no known issues.
Do you need the computer to be portable? If so, pick up a portable enclosure. Otherwise, any enclosure that will house the hard drive would be fine. Get the drive into the enclosure, then install the OS to it. If it runs fine while in the external enclosure, there's some connection inside the machine--possibly the cable--that has failed you. If you still have problems when the drive is in an enclosure, that suggests a problem with some part of the logic board or perhaps the drive itself is faulty.
~Lyssa

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I just purchased a D7000 and I'm looking to upgrade my PC for photo work with Lightroom and Photoshop CS5. Looking for feedback from experienced users. What is better, MacBook Pro or Win 7 64 bit?

Its hard to get reliable information about which platform Lightroom is most likely to work best on, since Adobe would say "works equally well on both", and most individuals have personal biases that cloud objectivity (plus, the users just dont have enough data points to make a curve, so to speak).
I've used Lightroom on both platforms, but can't tell which is best, except:
The Windows version supports hotkeys for menu accesses, which makes plugin use far more convenient (Mac version does not). Also, some (not many) plugin functions just dont work on the Mac because of it.
Also (I'm a plugin author) there are some inefficiencies in the Windows implementation of the plugin infrastructure that make me wonder if the Lightroom software has a Mac bias under the hood - but I dont know. On the other hand, there are some anomalies in the Mac implementation of the plugin infrastructure that make it hard to program plugins to work as well - for example, edited text fields are not commited before a button click is processed, so having buttons that do things with freshly entered text can be a challenge - there are some workarounds but not always viable, and a plugin author must know about it, remember it, code for it, and test for it... And, Mac users need to be aware that they may need to tab out of a text field before clicking a button that processes the text...
Anyway, in the grandest scheme of things, I think the differences are relatively minor, and the bigger question is: Which platform do you want to use for "other" things besides Lightroom.
PS - There may be slightly more potential for problems on the Windows platform because of the larger variety of hardware and drivers which could have funny interactions, but these are the corner cases...
Lightroom works great on my Mac, and on my Windows machine (much better on new machine than older), but Aperture hardly works at all on my (relatively new) Mac (sloooooooow), yet others dont have same problem... - go figure...
Cheers,
Rob

Ipod touch 32gb red special edition will not turn on - looking for advice

my daughter has a red special edition ipod touch 32gb but for some reason it is refusing to turn on - looking for any assistance on this?

Try:
- iOS: Not responding or does not turn on
- Also try DFU mode after try recovery mode
How to put iPod touch / iPhone into DFU mode « Karthik's scribblings
- If not successful and you can't fully turn the iOS device fully off, let the battery fully drain. After charging for an least an hour try the above again.
- Try another cable
- Try on another computer
- If still not successful that usually indicates a hardware problem and an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store is in order.
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