Mouse freeze after boot

I have two separate partitions on two separate drives which have MacOS 9.2 installed. They are both behaving in the same same. After booting up, I can usually move an icon around on the desktop for a while. Sometimes I can even move it to the trash, but not very often. After a few seconds the computer freezes and I cannot move the mouse.
I have tried rebooting into OS 9 for each of these partitions with extensions off with the same result. I can boot from the install CD and do NOT experience this problem.
I have removed all USB and firewire peripherals and still experience the problem. I still have DSL connected through Ethernet.
I had previousy removed preferences associated with disk burning (USB Authoring, fire wire authoring and SDAP authoring) as suggested by other posts, along with ASLM, Finder and MacOS and System prefs.
I have also rebuilt the desktop DB.
I have not yet zapped PRAM. Should that be the next step? Any other suggestions?
Classic works when run from OS 10.4. I am running on a G4 AGP Mac.
If I reinstall 9.2, I believe that I have to wipe the disk clean, install 9.2, then reinstall 10.4, is that correct?

I tried USB Overdrive (on both partitions) with the same result.
I tried to do a clean install of OS 9.2.1 by booting from the CD ("C" at startup) and I had the same result - mouse would freeze right after clicking on the Install icon.
I was able to do a clean install by clicking on the Install icon from the CD while it was on the OS X desktop (it launched Classic and then completed the install). I did this after manually trashing the old OS 9. Unfortunately, I still have mouse freezes when booting from that install also. This was with only the default Apple extensions/control panels installed.
One other interesting note - when rebooting into one of the troublesome partitions, OS 9 always says that memory was corrupt and goes through a repair using First Aid. When rebooting through the other OS 9 partiition, it does not do this. Also after going through this latest series of reboots, either First Aid or the reboot process somehow corrupted the Startup preference. The computer would normally default to boot into OS X. Instead it wanted to boot into the OS 9 which always had the repair memory condition. Even booting by holding down the Option key, it did not give me the option to boot into my normal OS X partition. I had to boot into a backup OS X partition and run Disk Utilities. (Startup preference panel did not contain my default boot drive and none of the folders from that drive showed up in the Finder sidebar). It took a very long time to mount any disks in Disk Utilities sidebar, but eventually it mounted my preferred startup disk, and only then was I able to change the Startup preference panel and boot normally.

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