Tiger running way too hot

Hello,
Fan/Cooling Issue
Since upgrading from Panther to Tiger the cooling fan runs nearly continuously. It may rest for about a minute then it begins running again. The CPU speed is sent on 'Automatic'. If I set it to 'Reduced' it runs way to slow, which should be expected. However, with Panther I never had this problem: when set on 'Reduced' I rarely heard the fan. It appears that Tiger does not recognize 'Automatic' but only acknowledges 'Highest' and 'Reduced' CPU settings. This is needless wear and tear on my PB and am not happy about this at all.
Folder Fragmented Names
Folder names longer than one line are also an issue. The second line is never clearly seen and when the folder is moved, part of the second line text is left behind. Never had this problem with Panther either.
For my purposes, Tiger is no improvement over Panther. If I could get my money back and return to Panther, I would.
Phillip
17 PowerBook, 1.33 Ghz   Mac OS X (10.3.9)   2 GB Ram

I'm back.
All of the Desktop icons are back. The 'Delocalizer' icon is now gone as well. That's a strange one because I trashed that file when I was finished using it yesterday.
This may help your diagnosis. When I installed Tiger, it failed to preserve my Admin name and password but came up with 'Administrator (root)' which did not look good at all. I called Applecare and he said that was a very bad omen and to re-install Tiger which I did. However, when the log-in screen appears, the strange 'Other' appears together with my name. The 'Other' has an blue icon with planets in it. I've never seen this before, so perhaps this is a new Tiger icon which should really belong to the Administrtor - me - rather that to 'Other'. All of this makes me uneasy. I just experienced an OS crash in March which Bee (and others) helped me through for which I am very grateful. However, it appears that this PB is still not completly recovered.
I am now burning a DVD and then, come what may. I would be much happier just to re-initialize my HD and start fresh again.
There has to be some corrupt files or conditions which are carried forward from upgrade to upgrade and continue to plague this computer.
I just tried to use Apple's Backup which I've used sucessfuly before, and it failed: 'Failed backup on May 19, 2006 at 9:55 AM'.
What next?
Phillip

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              googletalkbrowserplugin: Version: 5.3.0.18358 Support
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              iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
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              Auto backup: YES
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                        My Passport for Mac [Local] (Last used)
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