Unable to boot Powerbook after updating to 10.4.9

Hi Folks,
Really hope someone can help me. I have a 12 inch Powerbook , G4, 1.5 GHz. 1.25 Gb RAM, 100 Gb hard drive, Superdrive, running OS X 10.4 Tiger.
I purchased the machine in mid 2005 and have had no problem reunning it. The computer came with OS X 10.4.0 installed. I have regularly updated it as Software Update recommends.
Several days ago, the computer crashed while using Safari to browse the internet. When I attempted to reboot I prgresed through the grey screen with the spinning cog to the Mac OS X startup screen and ended up freezing at a blank blue screen with a mouse curser. After much fiddling around with Disk Utility and the install disk's I was able to re-install 10.4.0 from the disk and eventually got the machine restarted. It was slow and regularly crashed whenever I ran programs, especially sofware update. I manually downloaded the OS X 10.4.9 combo update for Power PC and installed it. Was very slow going and hung up at the end for a long time but eventually seemed to work and the computer reset but froze at the grey screen. Since then I have been unable to progress past the initial grey screen with the apple logo. No spinning cog, no blue screen. I am unable to start it in safe mode, single user mode, verbose mode or even pressing down C to get to the disk utility. When I restart it with the installation disk in the drive, I am able to get to the install menu and run disk utility from there but it has a disk management tool error when attempting to verify or repair definitions. Repair Disk says there are no errors. I have reinstalled 10.4.0 from the disk three times but no change. I have about 2Gb of space free and the rest is filled with stuff I really don't want to delete. Plus I can't get access to the hard drive to delete things anyway.
Any suggestions? Safe mode doesn't work, Verbose or single user dont work, disk utilities don't help and I don't have another Mac I can do a Targeted restart from. Prefer not to do an erase and install as I'll lose 93 Gb worth of files.

No backup, mate? Tsk, tsk. Now that I got that out of the way, on to the problem.
First thing to try is zapping the PRAM: restart, holding down the CMDOPT+PR keys until you get at least three bongs, then let go.
Boot the machine with the Apple Hardware Test disk that came with the machine and run the extended tests. If the machine passes those, boot the machine normally and see if that fixes things.
If these don't work, I strongly suggest getting an external FireWire HD, boot with the install disks, use Disk Utility to format the HD, selecting Mac OS Extended, click on Options, select zero out data, and click on the erase button. When that's finished, install Tiger onto it, and see if it successfully boots the machine.
Enough for now, that should keep you busy for awhile. Come back with what works or doesn't work. Time to hit the sack.

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