Trouble: activity monitor, disc utility etc not working - fan at full speed

Good monrning - newbie post.
I've been using leopard since it came out and after a reluctant upgrade the problems have been piling up...
for the past couple of weeks the fan has been coming on almost immediately after startup, and not slowing down ever... I've upgraded to 10.6.6 in the hope this would fix it, but .... even did the massive combo update... then i thought i'd go into activity monitor to see what may be causing an overheat, but cannot open it. Also cannot open disk utility as it says it's still on 10.5.8 and not compatible... ?
Console won't open either (not that i'd know what to do with it). but it seems as though system tools are not running as they should!
ANy help from space out there would be really, really, greatly appreciated.
Thanks, M

ok, so for those following this thread - an update: hve downloaded atMonitor and found an old printer that was somehow still attempting to do stuff. Deleted this and so have immediately reduced the fan action.
still, though, no joy with the regular system tools...

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