No dock after install

I have an iMac from Sept 2006 with Tiger. I tried to upgrade to Leopard yesterday and everything went well and I got the "install successful" screen after which the computer restarted.
Once it had restarted, the dock, the top bar and my desktop appeared. But within seconds of appearing, they disappeared leaving only my desktop image on the screen (no blue screen). There is nothing that I have been able to do to bring them back. I have restarted several times. The same thing happens everytime. The computer is on, I can even put it to sleep, but no access to anything.
I would like to know if there is any way that I can revert back to my previous Tiger install to start with. Secondly, is there a 'Safe mode' startup in iMacs that I could use? Thirdly, is there a key combination that would show me what is going on when I see nothing on the screen (like ctrlaltdel in windows)?
All help is greatly appreciated!

Take a look at this discussion. It's the same problem and he launched in safe mode http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5846843#5846843
Using the other login I had on my computer, I removed the programs that I had on my user account that the other user didn't. I narrowed it done to 2 programs. It was either "Dates to Ical" or "HP Image Zone".
I had been removing programs without any luck until I removed "Dates to Ical" and then when I rebooted I realized that the icon that used to be HP Image Zone had a question mark when I logged into the problem user. I quickly moved the ? to the trash. Every since then I've been able to log into the problem user and see my dock and everything else. I suspect it was the HP Image Zone since the removal didn't seem to clean.
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