Sudden finder freezing. menu icons not loading. slow performance

Please help. My Powerbook has suddenly started acting strangely. After restarting the menu bar icons take around 5 minutes to load up. The airport cannot pick up any signals. The compiuter has no startup sound. The computer tends to freeze from the finder forcing a hard restart. I would like to re-install the system or run a diagnostic but am overseas without the disks. Have zapped PRAM and fixed privelages, trashed pref files. nothing.
Hoping I can get someone with some idea? i've run out.
thanks
B

If the machine has always taken 12 minutes to start up, since it came out of the box, then it was and is defective. There's nothing to do in that case but to take it in for service.

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