My iBook needs help.

I have a 2 years old 933 MHz iBook G4, and i will soon be upgrading to a MacBook Pro (yay). This iBook has troubled me a great deal. I will sell it a while after i get my MacBook. I have enjoyed it a great deal, even to the point that i play starwars battlefront on it (with 3 12 volt fans to keep the temp. down), my iBook is to underpowered for that...
Here is some of what my iBook has experienced:
*The Hard Drive is wacky
Many months ago I had to boot up from my external FireWire backup HD because the main drive did not boot, I think I took care of that when I used Techtool, Disk Warrior, and any thing else that is not norton (witch is unsupported on Tiger for the version I had[I HATE NORTON!!]) It is now working with out having to reformat it.
*I would use a edrive (Techtool) if it took up less space, I only have 4 GB of free space (10%) at this time.
*I had my first kernel panic is several months a few days ago, all I did was a fresh boot and open Safari and let it sit.
*I use Yasu when my mac acts up
*I have applejack installed
*My internet is slow (well it is my isp fault, they have given me my 4th modem [it does not supply a steady bandwidth but on most of the pings I do to google there is a 98% or higher success rate, or my isp DNS server[...]) ok.... ok... so that is not directly my iBook. But I am in the country and that is like the only broad band available. My dad pays $70 for 720 Kbps average and spikes of data up to 183.5KB/s today. I have inquired, no Comcast cable or Verizen DSL out here. (Do you think that is overpriced?)
What I am asking:
I would like to know if any of you have any suggestions on what I should do before I sell it, and on what I can do to stabilize my IBook. (I don't want to have to buy it back from the person I sell it to.) I think I will do a clean install and wipe the drive 12 times for the person I sell it to.

But the cron scripts WILL RUN on their own when your computer is on if you're using Mac OS X 10.4.x - even if your computer is off when they're scheduled. Mac OS X 10.4.x will run them when it can, you don't need a third party utility to force it. Apple has changed the Mac OS so it does this on its own.
You've already got one extra, unneeded process running every sixty minutes because of the Anacron, how many other extra, unneeded processes are running on your computer? THAT is one likely reason why it's slowing down.
I realize that with the Levels/Reputations turned off and only the online posts showing, it's hard to tell who's offering you some advice. But I have over 25,000 posts here and I am one of only four Level 5 users. You can choose to ignore my advice, but if I were you, I'd do an archive & install of Mac OS X to clean up your system and not run those kinds of utilities unless you know what they do and how to use them. I've never used any kind of utility like that and I have three perfectly running Macs at home and 250 at work.
-Doug

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