MBP won't start, stuck at desktop screen

I use my computer every day for work, it's a MPB 2.16 intel core duo
2 gigs of ram running the very latest os-x available.
alot of the site I use for work only work on Internet explorer 6 or better, so I downloaded an application called ies4osx which uses an X11 script to run a windows version of internet explorer. worked perfectly at first, but as the day went on my computer started getting very slow. I'd quit, still slow, and after a restart it would pick up again. So after a few times restarting (normally, not forced), I started it up, and it went to the desktop background picture (no menus icons etc), and the mouse is there, and switches between the mouse, and the spinning wheel. The mouse will move, but that is the only response the computer will give.
I restarted from the install disk, ran permissions and disk repair, no issues found.
I would archive and install, but it requires 11 gigs and i only have 6 free.
I really need all the info on here for work, and i need the computer itself. I'm using an iBook G4 i had around the house now.
does anyone have any ideas? I have both computers here at work with me all day. Will target disk mode work between the G4 and the intel? Any ideas are more than welcome

OK now i'm frustrated beyond all belief, i'm about to go throw this MBP at someone at the apple store
I cleared room (about 18gigs in total) and did an archive and install.
So now I have all my files/preferences in a "Previous Systems" folder.
So my mac looks like a new mac, minus the ~45 gig folder, doing nothing, and i'm down to 4 free gigs (18 before i archived/installed)
So now that I've archived and installed, how do i get my programs, preferences etc back to where they were? I can't just drag and drop because it wants to copy everything instead of move it.
I'm beyond frustrated at this point. and i don't think my boss is too happy that all i've been doing all day is screwing around with this pos computer.(which wasn't priced as a pos!!)

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