Reboot only gives a blue screen on my iBook G4

Got MS Office for Xmas. Installed it and it worked fine. This a.m. I installed an update.While surfing the web my mouse froze - had to reboot while holding down command and ctrl.
Every time I did this I could work for a shorter and shorter period of time before the mouse would freeze again. Got out the manual and managed to get the install 1 disk into the drive.
Manual says "Choose Installer>Open disk utility ...etc.
I saw nothing called "Installer" so tried to look it up in spotlight - found it, clicked on it and the whole thing froze up again. As I have been trying various things , the computer allows me less and less time before it freezes up.
Now I am to the point of rebooting and most times getting only afrozen light blue screen, andsome times getting the desk top and then getting a glimpse of the Install Disk 1 contents and trying to find "Installer" Or "disk utility" I am allowed one or two mouse clicks and freeze up happens again.
As I write this on my PC I keep trying to reboot my MAC laptop using command ctrl and now for the last 4 reboots I only get the light blue screen. I think I'm dead in the H2O.
Got any ideas? Thanks in advance.
Al

Option 1: put your original Mac OS install disk #1
into the CD drive and then shut down the computer.
press the power button, release it, and immediately
press and hold the C key. this will boot the
computer off the CD. after you click the language,
you'll see the install screen - don't install, go up
to the menu at the top and switch to Disk Utility.
select your hard drive and run a Disk Repair and a
Permissions Repair. Note any errors that appear when
you run the Disk Repair (don't bother noting anything
during the Permissions Repair). Quit and reboot your
computer.
If that doesn't work - I'll reply with Option 2.
Well thanks for the tip on how to start from the installer disk. I was holding down "c" when I pushed the power button rather than hitting just after pushing power. I went thru the repair disk and permissions deal and got several things listed that were being checked in the repair disk list. The only one that came up red was "illegal name" I swear to God this is MY computer and not somebody elses, and the copy of MS Office was legal and official.
I restarted and got the dead blue screen again.
I restarted again using command ctrl and got to the desk top and was allowed 2 mouse clicks before the screen completely froze.
I tried restarting from the install disk 3 more times before I could make it work. I think it's kinda like double clicking a mouse - you have to hit the "c" key at just the right time. "repair disk" this time said I had no problems. "Repair permissions" changed a bunch of stuff so fast that I couldn't even read it.
Restarted again and now for 15 mins it has worked perfectly!!!
Thank you Oh Wise One! Now I have to go out and do somebody a favor to repay you! THANKS!!!

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