Trouble upgrading to Mac OS X 10.4

I have a G4 currently running OS X 10.3.9. I just purchased an upgrade to 10.4.6. The installation seemed to run smoothly, it restarted, and presented the welcome screen, asking to select a language. When I click continue the next screen appears slightly messed up. By the next screen it's all garbled, with multiple instances of the menus appearing all over the screen.
The video card on the system is an nVidia GeForce MX AGP with 32 MB VRAM
Any help will be greatly appreciated. Although I was able to revert to 10.3.9 I need to upgrade to 10.4 in order to run one of the applications I need for work.

Thank you, Kenichi,
Yes, originally I had OS 9, upgraded to OS X 10.2, and then 10.3. After posting this message I reverted to 10.3 and upgraded the software. I changed back to start up on 10.4 and this time it started correctly. Things seemed ok until I tried to install QuarkXpress Passport 7.2 (the reason for my upgrade in the first place). The installation program kept crashing on me. Then I went to the live-chat support in quark.com and after a minute or two Safari crashed. Otherwise Safari is working fine (I'm using it right now). Is there a way to know for sure that everything installed correctly? I seemed to have a quirky system and this was not the case while running 10.3.
Thanks again for your help

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