Power Mac G4 Cube boots fine in OS X, but not in OS 9

This is kind of a runoff of my other thread.
I've been trying to get Classic to work for quite a while now. My computer has OS X 10.4 on it, but I installed OS 9.0.4 off a disk for Classic. I have also downloaded the required updates to get to OS 9.1, but when I try to start in OS 9, the computer freezes up on the screen with the deceptively happy little smiling computer.
I have checked and confirmed that my computer is able to boot OS 9, so why won't it??

For one thing, you need to find out from the original person what happened to the disks. If they lost them, they may still be able to get them from AppleCare.
Since you are at least getting to the happy face, it sounds like an extension conflict. Try when restarting into Mac OS 9 from Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Startup Disk to hold the shift key on startup. That will force it to start with no extensions. If that works, open Apple menu -> Control Panels -> Extensions Manager and set to Mac OS 9 base set and restart. Once that is done, you'll be able to upgrade your 9 to 9.2.2 from this article:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75288

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