Safari and other tasks fail to launch

I have a problem similar to others' descriptions of Safari not launching, but have not found a repair yet. Hardware is a G4 PowerBook, connected by built in ethernet to local router connected to cable service. System is 10.4.6, freshly installed following an ugly system crash, requiring reformatting of the hard drive. iTunes radio works, network diagnostics says all is well, pings are not lost, and another computer (this iMac) connects fine. Safari has worked on the Powerbook since the update, but seemed to come and go. Right now it's gone.
The Powerbook does not run help, mail, software update, or Safari: mail and Safari bounce briefly and stop trying to do anything. Software update just churns. Help does not seem to do anthing. Tried removing all cached, preference, and other library files associated with Safari, as mentioned in earlier posts, without resolution. Tried reinstalling Safari by itself, after trashing all Safari related files, no improvement. Tried deleting mail prefs, too, no change. I'm a little suspicious that it is something more fundamental, since there are at least four internet-related tasks that currently fail.
The only ominous thing that has happened lately was that while trying to reinstall applications, the installer got hung while "finishing," running an X11 installation script with "less than a minute" to go for about ten minutes before I gave up on it and forced a quit. Not knowing the state of installation of the other apps, I reinstalled them without X11. So X11 could be a mess right now, but Safari ought to be OK.
What should I try next?
I have not had these problems at all with the iMac, which is running slightly later software. Perhaps fragile features on the Powerbook have been repaired - I hope so. The Powerbook has been more frustrating than Windows for most of a year, now.
--WS

Hello Dana:
This is typed on a G4 (1gHz) running OS X 10.4.10 - and running very well.
I strongly suggest that you do not "reformat," whatever that is. If none of my suggestions help, I would do an archive and install:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120
An A&I installs a pristine copy of OS X (you would, of course, have to update) while retaining your files, folders, and settings.
It goes without saying, but everyone should have a good backup/retreat strategy. I make bootable clones of my iMacs on external firewire drives using a little program called SuperDuper ($28 at www.shirt-pocket.com). In that way, I can always fall back in the event of hardware or software problems.
Barry

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