Multiple Finders???

Ok, here's the story. My Grandma's eMac apparently stopped working one day, so she brought it over to me to try to fix. So I boot it up, and it loads the OS just fine, goes through the boot screen and everything. From there, all I saw was a blue screen, with the menu bar going on and off. So I quickly hit Command-Alt-Esc to see just exactly what was running, and it shows me one Finder, and then another starts up, and then another, and then another, and so on. Has anyone ever seen multpile finders starting up one after another? Or is it the same finder, but it's crashing and automatically restarting? Any help you guys could give me to help resolve this problem would be MUCH appreciated.
Lib.
P.S. I believe this is a 700MHz G4 eMac with stock 128MB of RAM, and a 38.16GB HD. I'm not exactly sure what OS is currently installed on it, but I don't think it's past 10.2. I'm not sure of any way to check it seeing as how I can't get through to the finder to run About This Mac. If you need the exact OS, and know a way I can find this out, let me know please. Thanks again.

Hi Malev
The disk is labeled as 10.1.4 … I don't think it boots into safe modeSafe Mode only applies to 10.2 and later.
goes through the boot screen and everythingI take it this means it gets past the login process (either a login screen or automatic login)?
If so, you could try deleting the file suggested by George in Single User Mode. But before trying that, we could see what your logs say. We can also try to find what OS version you are running.
Start in single-user mode by holding the Command and 's' keys as you start up. Type the following commands, but repeat the first one until it says your disk appears to be OK. Follow each command by pressing the <return> key.
/sbin/fsck -yIf you don't get a message saying "your disk appears to be OK" after three or four attempts, then post back what you do see. Otherwise continue with these commands, but at any time if you feel something isn't right, you can quit by typing 'reboot' and post back here.
system_profiler | grep VersionNote the '|' is the symbol above '\' on most Apple keybooards. Write down the System and Kernel Versions. I'm not 100% sure this works in 10.1: it's been a long time. Then let's look at the log:
tail -20 /var/log/system.logPost anything suspicious here, especially anything saying "error" or mentioning WindowServer and/or loginwindow.
To get back to normal, just
rebootPost back and let us know what happens.

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