Major crashes in OS 10.4.10

Ok, I've been having all sorts of strange problems with my new Macbook Pro. I'll start with the first big crash, add anything I remember, and update regularly...I seem to find new things every day. I can't come up with any sort of connections between the problems.
I've only had my computer a couple of weeks. I am (or was) running Parallels 3 with Windows XP Home. I had my computer open in my car, playing music. Closed it to walk down the stairs, reopened it. All of my normal login programs were re-opening, including Parallels. When I tried to start my Windows virtual machine, Parallels crashed, then all the other programs, then my whole computer. Could not get any response, including with Cmd-Opt-Esc. Had to shutdown using power button and restart. Since then I have not been able to start my Windows VM. Sometimes I can launch Parallels itself without problems until I try to start Windows, sometimes it crashes when I try to open Parallels, sometimes the icon doesn't even respond. I have run Disk Utility, repaired permissions, and checked my HDD from Disk Utility on the startup disk (10.4.6). I have uninstalled and reinstalled Parallels several times. Since that first problem all sorts of other small things seem to be happening. Programs that previously worked will crash once and then open, or crash every time. Some of my icons are messed up - some programs or files display an icon belonging to something else - all my mp3s showed the Parallels icons one day. Some of the icons are completely broken - just random horizontal lines. As of yesterday, links from other programs won't open in Firefox - links from Thunderbird open Firefox, but not the page, links from Fire (a chat program) crash Fire. As of today, my back button in Firefox rarely works. Sometimes a page will load with only the text. My internet dies intermittently - granted, our DSL is unreliable, but both the hub and modem show that my computer is sending and receiving. And sometimes one program has internet, but nothing else. At times I'm unable to sleep or shutdown from the Apple menu. Today I can't open About This Mac - had to launch System Profiler from Applications. The other day I installed another 1 GB of RAM on top of my original 1 GB (RAM was in the mail before problems started), and that seemed to make things slightly better temporarily. I was able to launch Parallels (but not Windows) a couple times, some of my icons started showing up correctly...but it's getting worse again. I contacted Parallels support since the problem seemed to originate with Parallels, but let's just say they're not the most responsive. I just got this computer as my eMac was on it's last legs - barely usable - and I'm very upset at not being able to do basic tasks! I read a topic about bugs with 10.4.10, but they seem to vary widely and I updated several days before the first problem. Any advice is appreciated! I can answer any questions that I'm able to find out without crashing...and if I need to reinstall anything I would really like to be able to keep my programs and settings. Thank you!

As sig helpfully provided, Try using Disk Utility to do a Disk Repair, as shown in this link, while booted up on your install disk.
You could have some directory corruption. Let us know what errors Disk Utility reports and if DU was able to repair them.
If no errors are reported, download the Combo update from this site (yours may be corrupt), not Software Update, disconnect all firewire + USB devices except keyboard + mouse, Repair Permissions, re-install update, Repair Permissions again + try.
Yours would be the 10.4.10 Intel Combo update. Others reading, download the combo update that applies to you!
Cheers! DALE

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