Strange Things are Happening...

Hello,
Whenever I turn on or restart my Mac mini v. 10.4.3, it successfully logs in until it reaches the desktop. Then everything disappears, leaving only my background, and then reappears. However it disappears again and goes into an endless loop of everything - the top bar, the dock, any windows open, all icons on the desktop - disappearing and then, around 3 seconds later, reappearing. Whenever I try to start a program it doesn't start. The finder window will open and then disappear with everything else. I have to start my computer in Verbose mode and enter in a string of text (number 7 at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106464 has the text I must enter). Is there anything I can do to stop my computer from doing this? I posted here before and got a fix, but as I said, it is only temporary. I must do that fix every time I log on. I'm looking to fix it once and for all.
Thank you!

Just a couple of things first. 1. Single-user mode isn't verbose mode. Thus, to boot into single-user mode, restart holding down the S key and not the V key. 2. Your problem appears to be the Finder crashing.
Before redoing the steps in the document you cited, do this:
Insert you install/restore disk.
Reboot into Open Firmware: restart holding down the CMDOPT+OF keys. Then, type these in, sequentially, following each by the return key:
reset-nvram
set-defaults
reset-all
The last command restarts the machine; thus, hold down the S key to get into single-user mode.
Once you do that, then type these in, sequentially, following each by the return key:
mount -uw /
mv /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist preferences.old
mv /Users/<yourusername>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist preferences2.old
mv /Library/Caches Caches_old
chmod 1775 /
reboot, holding down the C key.
Click on the install icon, select Disk Utility from Utilities, and repair the disk and permissions, quit DU, select Startup Disk, select the Internal HD, and click restart.

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