Please HELP!  my computer is FUBAR, seriously...

i just did a clean install of Tiger on a partition of maindrive in 2002 Quicksilver 867mHz, 1.25G RAM, installation went fine but it was very buggy. I did all the updates, incl combined 10.4.11. The most disconcerting bug was that i couldn't restart or shutdown. I did a bunch of disk utility repairs and scrapped Extensions.kextcache and com.apple.kernelcaches, as per some threads i read. I also disabled spotlight (from command line, i may have messed up something there). NOW, i cannot boot from any other volume, hard shutdown and restart brings me to login window of new tiger os. At hard start, holding option, c with install disk in drive, reset pram, shift,(safe mode), and restart from pref pane, DOES NOT WORK. It looks as if i cannot do a thing with this machine at this point, other than using Tiger in its completely buggy state. I don't even know how to reinstall anything at this point if i have to, cuz i cannot reboot to disc or another drive or partition. Any help would be appreciated.

thanks for the advice; luckily i tried something that worked; i was able to boot into single user mode holding the s key on start up; i did the fsck routines and it repaired permissions or something on a coupla files and was able to power down then restart with startup disk option with option key depressed; phew! pulling the pram and ram would have been a little more work, so glad i avoided that.
So, is there some reason why i shouldn't be able to install panther on a different volume on the same drive: i partitioned the master drive into two generous portions for the OS's respectively (i think 40+ and 30+ each approx., its an "80Gig" drive) and had panther up and running for weeks with no problems then tried installing tiger on the other partition and it wasn't working properly, namely the restart/shutdown function was gone, safari wouldn't launch, .dmg files would not unarchive, and spotlight was incessantly indexing (which may or may not have been what it was supposed to do) Needless to say, my tinkering most assuredly made things worse. i'm going to try and reinstall with disk permissions being executed before and after every freakin' update, and there are quite a few, cuz i bought some old retail tiger discs off ebay which are 10.4.?, i'm not sure, i didn't even check...
Anyways, if you have any suggestions or reasons why installing the new OS to the same drive, different partition should be problematic, lemme know.

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