Strange behaviour: menu bar freezes, programm icons incomplete

People,
I dont know what happened to my system.
I had some problems with the entourage database on my mac. Since i was not able to resolve it in any way (ms database utility was starting up and unexpectetdly quit always - if anybody can help here?) i noticed some odd behaviour and i started to delete all microsoft files from my mac.
But now there is still somethin strange going on.
For exemplae when i try to open a programm which has no programm icon yet (eg downloaded from internet) i will get a message that the programm my be damaged.
After that i can do merely nothing on my system!
I still have my finder-menu-bar - but i can not select andything to do for example a restart or to shut down. I also cant do this from other programs. only way is to activate the user switch in the right upper corner, go to the login screen and there (i can log in my user again there) select force restart.
i am absolutely clueless what is going on here!
My system was a leopard clean install and i took great care that everything is neat.
Now i have been sitting ducks here with the whole day start - force restart and so on.
Any ideas?
Thanks,alexander

Alexander Reinelt1 wrote:
People,
I dont know what happened to my system.
I had some problems with the entourage database on my mac. Since i was not able to resolve it in any way (ms database utility was starting up and unexpectetdly quit always - if anybody can help here?) i noticed some odd behaviour and i started to delete all microsoft files from my mac.
But now there is still somethin strange going on.
For exemplae when i try to open a programm which has no programm icon yet (eg downloaded from internet) i will get a message that the programm my be damaged.
After that i can do merely nothing on my system!
I still have my finder-menu-bar - but i can not select andything to do for example a restart or to shut down. I also cant do this from other programs. only way is to activate the user switch in the right upper corner, go to the login screen and there (i can log in my user again there) select force restart.
i am absolutely clueless what is going on here!
My system was a leopard clean install and i took great care that everything is neat.
Now i have been sitting ducks here with the whole day start - force restart and so on.
Any ideas?
Thanks,alexander
Your HD may be failing, for one thing.
Run DU and check both the HD and repair the file permissions.
Windows programs can collect and retransmit viruses and possibly damage some files. There are reports of a few viruses for Macs.
But I suspect it is most likely your HD going South.
If DU does not turn up any errors, post back.

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