Powerbook won't go past login page.

4 or 5 year old P'Book G4 running Leopard. Used Time Machine for first time yesterday. Today did a software update for latest 10.5.XXX
Partway through installing the update, the screen gets that grey transparent thing with the "You must restart your computer . . . " message. Upon restart I get a log--in screen that I've never gotten before. I enter my password and hit 'enter'. The screen changes to blue, then comes back to 10.5 'space' screen with the same log-in window. I've restarted in single user mode and done a p'word reset. Nothing. Now my computer won't boot up from the Leopard disk in the CD drive. ????????
Why is this happening? And why is OSX getting more like Windows all the time. Is this a twisted universe?
Message was edited by: Michael Murphy2

Thanks for your reply, Steve. Just after posting my question I took the P'Book in to an Apple store where the tech managed to get an 'archive and install' going. Seemed it was a glitch in whatever update it was that I installed just before doing the Time Machine backup.
When I described that onscreen message the tech said " . . . sounds like a kernel panic" - (pretty sure that's what he said).
I can use the computer now - I'll try a hardware test when I get a chance.
Next issue is to free up hard drive space by deleting 'previous systems'. I've done two 'archive and installs' (both after 'updates' created problems). I read in another forum that if there are no operational issues the old systems can be deleted.
Oh, to answer your last question - 1ghz machine, 1 gig of ram. One of the ram sockets doesn't work - single 1 gig chip for ram.

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