System settings are being updated??

I bought an eMac from a friend of my husband's, and there wasn't the Safari icon to connect to the internet. So, I clicked on the apple icon at the top left of the screen, then clicked on Mac OS X, and it would usually open up the internet browser and I could surf the web from there. Well, my husband was messing around with the computer to try and figure things out, and now when I click on that same thing a gray box pops up in the middle of the screen and says that my system settings are being updated and it's unable to open my preferred web browser and I need to try again in a few minutes. This started last night, so it's been well over 24 hours, as we let it set there thinking it just wasn't finished updating. How do I get rid of that?

Hello Mrs. Long,
Did you get the 10.4 Install Discs with it? If so power down, hold mouse button down at power on to open the tray & inset Install Disc, hold Option/alt key at same time to bring up the Startup manager so you can choose the Install Disk to boot from.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu at the top of the screen. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)

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