Missing Dock & Apple Menu Not Responding

About a month ago, I turned on my desktop imac to find no dock and no item on the apple menu work except for the sleep function. I am not the most computer savvy person so any help in dummy terms would be great. I have spent the last month reading post after post with similar problems and tried all solutions with no success. I have tried repairing permissions and disk repair from the tiger cd. I have reset the pram or something like that. I have also tried creating a test user id account and could not even log in under the new account. I am in deep deep need of help. Anyones advice is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Brandon

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