System crashing when I make a new folder, do I have the correct advice?

Hi all, I'd greatly appreciate any help if anyone can offer any advice about the issues I'm having? I'll try and be as clear as possible about what is happening, but I'm not 100% sure myself!
I'm on an iMac running the original OS X 10.4.11 which the machine came with. A few days ago I had my Nikon camera hooked up with a USB (which I do regularly), and I created a new folder on the desktop to drop some images in. As soon as I named my new folder and clicked away all of the icons on my desktop disappeared. I can't remember exactly what happened at that point but the screen was flicking from all blue, to my desktop again, to all blue, to desktop again. Sometimes the desktop had a loading animation on it too, no icons, just the dock, my background and the loading animation. It stayed like this for ages and eventually I had to switch off at the back as my cursor wouldn't show.
So when I restarted I got the start-up sound as normal, then when my desktop and dock appeared the whole process started again. No icons showing, just the flicking from blue screen to desktop, then eventually settling on the loading animation over my desktop for a long time.
At this point I call Apple support and describe what's above. They have told me that if I use the disk that came with my iMac and do the following my problem should be solved.
Apparently I should:
- Insert the disc while the machine is on.
- Shutdown and reboot.
- When I hear the chime hold down C for 2/3 minutes, then follow the reinstall operation.
However after leaving my machine on for several hours with the empty desktop and loading animation I came back into the room to find my desktop back to normal with all the icons there! I worked frantically trying to get some emails done and to back up some files, then after some time created a new folder on the desktop again and as I feared everything I described above happened again!
To cut a long story short all of the problems above occurred again, and the desktop eventually went back to normal again. Now I'm using the machine and it's working fine, but I'm not going to try making another folder again just yet!
I would have tried the reinstall already, but the disk is at another address so I'm waiting for it to be mailed to me. In the mean time I thought I would ask if anyone else had experienced this issue, or knew what it was?
I'm also concerned about doing the reinstall, will the contents of my hard drive be safe? I would back up, but don't have the storage for everything. One of the reasons I want to get everything running smoothly is so I can install my new copy of Snow Leopard and hook up Time Capsule.
Hope you can offer some advice, apologies for the lengthy post!
Many thanks.

Cough up the money for a backup drive.
If it isn't backed up ... you do not have it.
Here are two utilities for making a complete backup of your internal hard drive. I've recommend using one of these so that you can create a bootable system on your external hard drive. ( PPC require a firewire connected drive. ) Once created, you can run your system from the external drive. Hold down the option key on your keyboard then power on your machine. This will bring you in startup manager click on the drive image you wish to boot then click on the arrow key to the right.
"Clone, synchronize, backup. Schedule and forget it."
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
"SuperDuper is the wildly acclaimed program that makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless."
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
You need an external Firewire drive to boot a PowerPC Mac computer.
I recommend you do a google search on any external harddrive you are looking at.
I bought a low cost external drive enclosure. When I started having trouble with it, I did a google search and found a lot of complaints about the drive enclosure. I ended up buying a new drive enclosure. On my second go around, I decided to buy a drive enclosure with a good history of working with Macs. The chip set seems to be the key ingredient. The Oxford line of chips seems to be good. I got the Oxford 911.
The latest the hard drive enclosures support the newer serial ata drives. The drive and closure that I list supports only older parallel ata.
Has everything interface:
FireWire 800/400 + USB2, + eSATA 'Quad Interface'
save a little money interface:
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This web page lists both external harddrive types. You may need to scroll to the right to see both.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/eSATAFW800_FW400USB
Here is an external hd enclosure.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MEFW91UAL1K/
Here is what one contributor recommended:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10452917#10452917
Folks in these Mac forums recommend LaCie, OWC or G-Tech.
Here is a list of recommended drives:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5564509#5564509
FireWire compared to USB. You will find that FireWire 400 is faster than USB 2.0 when used for a external harddrive connection.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniversalSerial_Bus#USB_compared_toFireWire
http://www23.tomshardware.com/storageexternal.html
How to format an external harddrive:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11095144#11095144

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