Nothing on my desktop after installing Leopard

Installation was successful, but after restarting, for about 10 seconds my desktop (icons, dock, menu bar) appeared, and suddendly dissapeared.
Then I can only see my desktop picture, but nothing happens. I've been waiting for about 30 minutes...
May I restart, or should I keep waiting? What can I do?
Thanks!

txindu, after you have waited if nothing appears (assuming the disk is still in the optical drive) press the startup button until the computer shuts down, now wait a few minutes until the machine is complete settled. Now press the startup button and restart while holding down the Option key. This should Open Startup Manager and give you a choice of startup drives, choose the Leopard Disk as your startup drive. Once the disk mount choose English, then go up to the Main Menu to Utilities and scroll down to Disk Utility. Once DU opens choose your start up drive in the upper hand column of the window an run Disk Repair from First Aid in the upper Tabs. Now check the SMART Status of your hard drive at the bottom of the window, it should say Verified. Next select your startup volume in the left column and run Repair Permissions.
If all checks out go back up to the Main Menu/Utilities/Startup Drive and choose your hard drive and choose Restart.
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