MAJOR Panther probs - SBOD - nightmare !

I last used my mac a week ago - booted into OSX for some surfing and then booted into OS9 for some music stuff - all worked fine as normal and no new software or updates were installed .
He we are a week later, the computer hasn't been on at all during the week and suddenly the boot up process into OSX takes an age, once passed the welcome to OSX message, I get the multi-coloured, spinning beach ball and my disc partition icons and the file menu at the top of the screen take approx 5-10 mins to appear.
If I then click on Safari for example in the dock, nothing happens, I get no Safari window opening for about 10 mins and then my home page never loads and if you wait long enough you finally get the message 'you are not connected to the internet' despite the cable modem being on.
My cable modem is alive and well, showing a normal set of lights, including the ENET light.
If I boot onto my rescue disc (LaCie external hard drive) exactly the same symptons are experienced. Booting into OS9 is the only way I have been able to log onto this website, utilising a dial up connection.
I believe this is nothing to do with the internet connection since the poor system response times are experienced long before Safari is opened.
So what on earth has happened to my computer in the space of a week when it wasn't even switched on ?
Any help would be very much appreciated 'cos I'm panicing somewhat !!
Nick
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OK, I had a look at the system log file within the console app, I couldn't find anything mentioning 'history' but I certainly found a system log file which I attach below.
I followed it back until it starts where I booted into OSX this evening and looked for anything saying error or failure or something similar, the first thing I noticed was this :-
Mar 8 18:53:59 localhost kernel: AppleRS232Serial: 0 0 AppleRS232Serial::start - returning false early, Connector or machine incorrect
Then there's loads of other stuff but the only time I see anything repeating really regularly is right at the very end of the logfile, these are the last few lines :-
Mar 8 18:54:49 localhost ConsoleMessage: Starting printing services
Mar 8 18:54:49 localhost SystemStarter: Starting printing services
Mar 8 18:54:53 localhost SystemStarter: Waiting for Printing Services
Mar 8 18:54:55 localhost SystemStarter: Startup complete.
Mar 8 18:55:06 localhost kernel: arplookup 0.0.0.0 failed: host is not on local network
Mar 8 18:55:37 localhost kernel: arplookup 0.0.0.0 failed: host is not on local network
Mar 8 18:56:08 localhost kernel: arplookup 0.0.0.0 failed: host is not on local network
Mar 8 18:56:13 localhost ntpd_initres[389]: couldn't resolve `time.euro.apple.com', giving up on it
Mar 8 18:56:39 localhost kernel: arplookup 0.0.0.0 failed: host is not on local network
Mar 8 18:57:10 localhost kernel: arplookup 0.0.0.0 failed: host is not on local network
Mar 8 18:59:14 localhost last message repeated 4 times
Mar 8 19:09:04 localhost last message repeated 19 times
Mar 8 19:18:53 localhost last message repeated 19 times
Mar 8 19:29:14 localhost last message repeated 20 times
Mar 8 19:39:03 localhost last message repeated 19 times
Mar 8 19:48:53 localhost last message repeated 19 times
Mar 8 19:59:13 localhost last message repeated 20 times
Mar 8 20:09:02 localhost last message repeated 19 times
Mar 8 20:18:51 localhost last message repeated 19 times
Mar 8 20:29:12 localhost last message repeated 20 times
Mar 8 20:39:02 localhost last message repeated 19 times
Mar 8 20:48:51 localhost last message repeated 19 times
Mar 8 20:59:12 localhost last message repeated 20 times
Mar 8 21:09:01 localhost last message repeated 19 times
Mar 8 21:19:21 localhost last message repeated 20 times
Mar 8 21:29:10 localhost last message repeated 19 times
Don't know if any of this lot explains why I'm having the problems I am ?
Nick

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