PLEASE HELP: Weird Start Up Screens

I have a powerbook G4 that I bought about 2 years ago.
It's running on OS X and just like 2 days ago it suddenly started to lag A LOT. I first noticed after noticing this with my itunes, with songs pausing and resuming very erratically.
But the main problem is the slow startup that I have been experiencing. I don't even get the APPLE logo without getting:
1. A blue background with a globe in a square icon that flashes.
2. Then a Finder logo in a folder icon...
3. Then a folder with a question mark in it...
THEN, I finally get the APPLE logo and it gives me the login screen which loads really slow as well.
This is the first major problem I've had with my powerbook, and I'm really just a newbie MAC user. I've tried using onyx, but it just made the startup process longer.
PLEASE HELP.

what if it doesn't recognize your hard disk? the same thing happened to mine and i was told to run a disk repair, so i did. it worked for a while but crashed again. i've had my computer for a little over a year. i did it again- it didn't recognize the hard disk so i did other things like hold down shift- that didn't work. i held down the option key- didn't recognize. i opened the disk utility and it was miraculously there. so i ran a disk repair again. it worked for a day and then crashed again and now this time, it has the world icon. i tried over and over all those things but the macintosh hd icon hasn't come up at all in the disk utility. why isn't it being recognized and if i go in and try to fix my computer, will everything erase or will i be able to save my files?

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Hi. Ok, got an oldish imac, and for last 2 years it's been useless, finally decided to look into repairing it.
Used to have the good old blue screen of death, and wouldn't run in safe mode. A friend installed his version of OS snow leopard on it, and we can run it in safe mode fine, and now once it gets past the start up screen, we get a white screen, with a sort of check board line running down the middle...
Snapped this.
We want the kids to have the machine.
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