Safari won't activate after Tiger and Panther re-install

I wanted to upgrade from Panther 10.3.9 on my Powerbook G4 667/40GB 15 inch to Tiger 10.4.6 from a blackbox CD. It said install successful but when I restarted, the boot was slow and it ended up frozen with a blank blue screen, no desktop icons or dock, and just a Spotlight icon in the upper left, spinning wheel on rollover.
So I re-installed Panther 10.3.2. It corrupted my Quark activation so that is now an issue, too. But I could not get Safari to open. The GetInfo says Ver. 2.03 but I don't think that's the right version that came with 10.3.2. I am now trying to download 10.3.9 Combo see if that would work.
Any help out there?

Hello macyue:
Welcome to Apple discussions.
I am not being critical, but your post is a good advertisement for having a good backup/retreat strategy before software changes.
Given the steps you have documented, there is really no way to determine what happened when to your system.
Did you use the full retail version of OS X when you attempted to upgrade? Did you use the migration feature?
Where do you want to wind up?
Barry
P.S. Your problems are much greater than a Safari issue.
Message was edited by: Barry Hemphill

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