My Powerbook G4 is going NUTS

I've been having some major problems with my Powerbook G4 the last couple of months. Here are some of my symptoms:
1.)When I login in under the Main Admin account, no icons will appear on the desktop and the gray bar on the top keeps flicekring on and off. The account is completely unuseable.
2.) On other accounts, programs like garageband, photoshop, System Preferences and many others will NOT open (Safari is the only program I can count on to open. The icon in the Dock just bounces for about 3 minutes then stops and nothing happens. Others that open crash constantly
3.) When in the finder window, If i click on Applications, Documents, or anything else in the window, Finder shuts down and relaunches again.
If anyone knows a way to remedy these problems without having to completely restore my computer, you would be my SAVIOR! My Powerbook is almost completely unuseable.
Thanks, Matt

My model is the 15in. 1.33GHz Combo Drive, 60GB Hard Drive with about 15GB available, 2x256 SDRAM memory which is all original.
It's been so long since its functioned properly, I can't really pinpoint exactly what is was. One theory was that somehow my computer got screwed up when I tried to upload pictures from a digital camera. Its possible that the pictures or the camera could have been corrupted when it was attached to the computer. Although, it seemed that it really happened all on its own.
The problem could have also been from a bad application that was installed, but Im not sure which one that would be. I have not been able to really update the computer since the System Update program crashes everytime before the update is finished.
There have been other problems with it like: The date keeps reverting to 1969, if I try to drag any icons on the screen it won't let me and makes Finder relaunch, and the computer regularly freezes.
As for my system install disc, I have carelessly missplaced it at the moment. My initial idea was to just completely wipe the computer clean and start from fresh, but I reeeallllly hope I dont have to that.

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