STRANGE but TRUE! This is really happening...

I can't figure this one out. I hope someone can help. My iMac suddenly hates the internet with a passion. It started happening after I downloaded iTunes 5.0 with the albumn "yello - the eye".
First off, I have had to hold down the power button to shut down my frozen iMac 4 times in the past 2 days. When I reboot, the boot music is gone, my volume display is gone, it locks up with Safari, Firefox, Mail, etc. and I can't seem to run any software having to do with the internet as well as any other software. I can only open and use about 2 programs at a time (if I'm lucky) that have nothing to do with the internet such as Word & photoshop, but when those hang, force-quit won't even open and I can't shut the system down except for the power button.
Now get this, as soon as I unplug my cat5 cable from the back of my iMac, everything suddenly works fine, my volume display returns, other programs open up just fine, I can now force-quit, and when I reboot, the mac music/sound plays.
What in the world is going on??? Please help. Thanks

Hello AgeMaker!
I don't know if anybody has asked you to do this, but try this. Go into your hard drive, click Applications, go to Utilities, and finally scroll down to Disk Utility. Open that and click on your hard drive under Disk Utility. At the bottom of the window, it will tell you if your hard drive is either "Verified" or "Failed". Verified is good and means that the problems you are experiening aren't with your hard drive, but if it is failed you hard drive is dying and you will need to back up all your data and contact AppleCare to get the drive replaced.

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