PowerBook G4 Not working with 10.5.5

Hello,
I updated my mac to 10.5.5 and now all I get is a screen with my wallpaper and nothing else. No hardrive, my DOCK is not even present. Did the update screw up my mac? It was working fine prior to the update. Do I have to take it to a the Genius Bar and see what the **** they can do to fix their screw up?
Lucky me I didn't update my wife's iMac Intel Core Duo.
Any assistance would be appreciated.

If you get a bootable, external FireWire HD, use something like Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper!, and put a bootable backup/clone onto it, then you can upgrade anytime, check it out, and, if you have issues, revert to the backup/clone. Details in:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106941
http://www.macmaps.com/upgradefaq.html
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/installswupdates.html
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