OS Graphics won't load, causing system lag to ungodly ends

This problem is with the computer listed at the bottom.
Recently, I've been having a lot of trouble with my computer, but the only lasting problem thus far has been a problem with certain aspects of the OS GUI not working properly, namely drop menus, mouse overs and the dock.
The blue high-light which follows the mouse cursor in menus does not appear anymore unless I hold down the mouse button; a minor inconvenience, but an annoying one. This is the least serious of the issues.
Mouse overs do not work at all. This ranges from mouse-overs on buttons for the OS (like what does what in Photoshop) or changing from the pointer to the little hand when hovering links in Safari. A little more serious, IMO, but still just an annoyance at best.
The dock no longer rises and lowers on its own. To raise it, I need to click near the bottom of the screen to get it to come up and to get it down, same process. This is really frustrating, since often times to get the dock up I will have to inadvertantly click on an application that I don't want to open, wait for the app to open, shut it down, and hope I was quick enough to keep the dock up while doing all of this. Even more annoying is that the text for each application in the dock will get stuck, staying in their places even when the dock is down.
Last night I tried backing up and doing a complete wipe and reinstall of my start up disk to no avail. The problems persisted even beyond a complete reinstall.
Any ideas?
Power Mac G3 800 mhz Mac OS X (10.4.4) Radeon 7000, Two HDs (40 and 80), Sonnet Processor upgrade, 768 RAM

Believe me, I would if I could. But all of my $$$ goes to college right now, and a wedding...in other words, right now isn't a good time for my poor little B&W to poop out on me
Besides, most all of my work is Photoshop editing and writing, which isn't all that CPU intensive, so 800 mhz g3 is more than enough, at least, with the RAM I have it is.

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