MBP 10.5.8 hanging when run setup as if a new machine

MBP 10.5.8
For a number of weeks my MacBook has been hanging and needing a hard restart and at other times taking longer and longer to boot up.
Finally it gave me a password prompt but not for my usual account and it wouldn't accept my password.
So in command line I went to ls /Users/ got the username of my account and tried to change the password in command line using:
Launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.opendirectory.plist
Passwd <username>
And the system said the username was not recognised even though what I typed was the one that showed when I ran ls /Users/
I did this several times with the same thing happening each time
Then I tried to create a new admin account by deleting var/db AppleSetUpDone
when I reboot it runs the setup program as if it were a new mac - I tried setting it up with the details of my wireless connection; it ran overnight without finishing
I then tried setting it up saying I do not connect to the Internet - same thing, it ran overnight without finishing
When I run fsck -fy in command line it says everything is fine
I know this machine is old and on its last legs and I would really appreciate any help getting it going for a little bit longer.
Thanks very much

E27 wrote:
We have a mbp bootable clone with 10.5.8 and want to use this as a backup startup disk on a mba with 10.6.8. We understand that it is generally not possible to startup a bootable clone that has a different os than what you are currently running.
You should as long as the MP had booted off the 10.5.8 clone previously.
However I, and others also, found out that we can no longer boot off the 10.5 disks in a later 10.6+ Software Update, it might be the firmware was changed to disallow 10.5 from booting once on 10.6.+ sometime.
Apple might have done this because they don't want people using the 10.5 disk to repair their 10.6 altered drive.
Got the written kp hard boot screen and had to unplug the clone while frozen but there appears to be no permanent damage to any of the drives. We suspected this may happen.
There is your answer and no, no pernament damage was done, it's all a read operation and the machine/firmware couldn't use the 10.5.8 drivers.
You'll have to find a Mac that is of the same model and runs 10.5 to boot off that 10.5.8 clone.

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