Sleep and Shut-down menu commands

Our 500 MHz Power PC G3, upgraded to system 10.4.6, is a great machine and a real work horse for us. However, it has been acting up lately. The apple symbol drop down menu command that puts the computer to sleep, restart, shut down etc. will not respond. The key board commands for sleep etc. also don't work. I tried the Disk Utilitly- First Aid, both Disk Repairs and Permissions. "No repairs were necessary" for both. I even reinstalled OS 10.4.6 which seems to have complicated the problem and ate a big chunk of our precious little harddrive memory. Now every time I start up I get the warning message, "Application Launch Failure" The applicaton "Transport Monitor' could not be launched
because of a shared library error:"8<Transport Monitor><Transport Monitor><HotSyncLib.PPC><"
Could this be the root of the drop-down menu problem?

As I said, a weak or dead PRAM battery can reportedly cause odd startup issues. If it has never been changed in six years, that's a really long-lasting battery, even if the iMac was kept on continuously.
They are pretty cheap from the right source, so you may want to try changing it.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item-specials/Newer%20Technology/BAA36VPRAM/

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    As I said, a weak or dead PRAM battery can reportedly cause odd startup issues. If it has never been changed in six years, that's a really long-lasting battery, even if the iMac was kept on continuously.
    They are pretty cheap from the right source, so you may want to try changing it.
    http://eshop.macsales.com/item-specials/Newer%20Technology/BAA36VPRAM/

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