My PB Is Dead. Any Way To Bring It Back ?

*Hello all,*
I've been using Mac for almost 4 years now, and I gotta admit that I can't live without my Mac nor Mac OS X. My Powerbook G4 has got to be the best laptop ever made - it is small yet powerful. I bought mine 3 years ago when Tiger was out, and until yesterday I've never upgraded it save for migrating to Leopard early this year. FYI, I used my Powerbook to the max, doing a lot of heavy duty on its 512MB RAM like Photoshop CS3, Lightroom and etc. Over the year, I've done a lot of damages to my Powerbook, like denting its rear part, the battery losing almost 95% of its charge (thus making it unusable) and I even lost the Wi-Fi capability after I accidentally pulled out the AirPort card during an experiment.
Nevertheless, I did not have much problem with it, and of course the lags when booting up and starting apps like Photoshop are quite normal. However, my Powerbook freezed up on me 2 days ago as I was watching a movie over Quicktime. I restarted the whole thing, but I got nowhere near the login screen. Fearing the worst, I quickly moved all my data to my friend's Macbook using target disk mode. So far, I've tried reinstall Leopard, but the install screen just won't show up. I even tried to reinstall Tiger, which was successful, but then I just can't see the login screen.
My question is,
1. is this a confirmed case of failing HDD?
2. Since I can't run my PB on battery anymore, I've been using direct power source, and whenever my power cable got disconnected accidentally, the PB will just go dead, and the PB's system date will always reset to 1976 after I reboot it. Yesterday when I booted into Open Firmware screen, I was horrified to see that the system date was shown to be at 1st January 1901. Is this normal?
So, to all the people here, I'd really appreciate it if somebody can tell me what went wrong and what I can do to get my beloved PB back? Right now with the economic recession and all, I can't really afford to get a new one, nor I really want to send back to the AARs here as they charge quite high just for repairing (Apple being the less popular brand here where I live). Also, there is no way I'm going back to Windows - it's just like going back to Stone Age. So. it'd really be helpful if somebody with similar experiences can tell me what I should do.
Thanks again for reading.
Charles.C
(www.asamBoy.com)

Hi everyone,
Thanks for the replies, and sorry for not signing in for the past one week as I was really busy at work.
Regarding your suggestions about cleaning up my HDD and all, I've tried 'em all and none seems to bring my PowerBook back to life. I also forgot to add one more thing - the screen was a bit fuzzy and there were purple-like thin lines across the screen whenever I start the PowerBook up.
After some consultation with a few Mac enthusiasts at my workplace, they concluded that my PowerBook's "death" was caused by the PowerBook's logic board failure. True enough, we opened up the thing and found out that the VGA component on the logic board was overheated and thus broke apart (literally!). The problem was a well-known one; according to my friends, the problem was also found in the iBook line and while the problem can be simply rectified on the iBooks by placing a piece of rubber (or whatever it is) on the VGA component, the same problem cannot be solved for PowerBook. Whatever it is, Apple was aware of the problem but did nothing to to solve the engineering/architecture defect.
Well, since I've found the solution, I guess I'll try my luck hunting for a replacement logic board online. Thanks guys, you've been really helpful.
Charles

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