Start up problems help!!!

hey
so my ibook g3 was beginning to have problems. many programs such as ichat,safari or adium would shut down and error messages would come up saying it closed ect. so i decide to restart since it usally solves the problem but this time it didnt. so i go and restart the login window pops up i log in and the black command promt like screen pops up its darwin ask me to log in ect and i have to use coding and im not familar with the coding so i dont know what to do im getting kinda mad since ihave many papers due this week since im graduating highschool i just want to get it back up and dont want to resort to buying a new machine so please post info or help me thanks

Whenever something starts going wrong with the computer I suggest you first boot from the installer disk, run Disk Utility and repair the preferences on your computer and verify (and repair if necessary) the drive. You can also repair preferences from DU on your main drive while booted, but to properly verify and repair your drive you have to run it from a drive other than the boot drive. A limited repair is also performed as part of a Safe Mode boot.
[Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214]
[Using Disk Utility in Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302672]
[Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25751]
If safe mode won't boot you can try using single user mode and then run fsk:
[Mac OS X: How to start up in single-user or verbose mode|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1492]
After that you're looking at getting [Diskwarrior|http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior> to try and repair directory, and then maybe [Data Rescue II|http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php] or [FileSalvage|http://subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?mainpage=product_info&productsid=1]. The two latter ones have free trial versions that let you see if the software will help before you decide to buy but you have to have an empty hard drive to dump the results. Diskwarrior does repair in-situ.
However, if you're getting a boot error perhaps you can paste some of the message here because it may be that something else (potentially simple like a single missing file) may be wrong and would save you the $100-$200 of all the software purchases.

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