Titanium G4 Problems

Greetings everyone.
I’m trying this again, as previous suggestions haven’t worked ...
I’ve got a bit of a problem with my Titanium PowerBook, and,
as always, when I can’t seem to fix it myself, I turn to the
great people of the world for assistance.
The machine:
Titanium PB G4, 400MHz, 10 GB HD w/5GB available, 256MB RAM w/VMemory on,
running OS9.1.1
The problem:
When opening some programs, such as PhotoShop or Adaptec Toast
(not at the same time), the application will start to open and then immediately quit.
No error message or other indication of a problem. Occasionally, a program
will open, but immediately upon trying to use it (i.e., opening a photo, creating a
new document, etc.) the program crashes. As this is happening with more than
one of my programs, I feel it is a OS problem and not the specific program.
Examples of memory specifics:
Photoshop-Suggested Size:16384k; Min. Size: 16384k; Pref Size: 23616k.
Toast-Suggested Size: 8000k; Min. Size: 8000k; Pref Size: 10220k.
What I have done to try to solve this problem:
I trashed the preferences for both these apps and the Finder and System
prefs, rebuilt the desktop, and also increased/decreased the memory for
each app. No change.
I ran Disk Doctor and TechTool with no problems found.
I completely deleted all PhotoShop, Toast, or other effected/relevant files
and programs from the computer, and re-installed everything via disk. No change.
I re-built the Desktop and zapped the PRAM. No change.
Note: All other apps seem to work fine and as expected. Just these
few apps are giving me the problems. I feel that it is a computer-wide
problem that is affecting only a few applications, not an application problem.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks!!
Bill
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Hi Thunder 1,
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
It sounds like a memory or cache problem. Check in System Profile to see if all your RAM and cache is being recognized.
Also, why not update to at least to 9.2.2? The updates are free on this site (Support:Downloads).

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