Unable to install anything

Earlier today I tried to open up AIM on my Mac Mini and it refused to work. I restarted my computer and tried again. Again, it didnt open so I uninstalled it and attempted to reinstall it. When I tried to reinstall it, the installer wouldn't open. So next I tried to open another program, and the same thing happened. I restarted, uninstalled, and tried to reinstall, but again the installer wouldnt work. I tried one last time with a third program and the same thing happened.
Yes all of these programs were universal binaries.
Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?
Thank You
Mac OS X (10.4.8)

It would not be possible to state with 100% certainty that you don't have a virus on your system, but it could be said with 99.99% certainty!
There are no known viruses, Trojans or Spyware that would be capable of affecting a MacOS-based system, and in the absence of any evidence from the security specialists who monitor these things that malware targeting MacOS has been found in the wild it is most unlikely - bordering on the completely improbable - that you have such a problem.
What is most likely to have happened is that part of the Finder, the application which runs the desktop and controls your access to the system, has been damaged, or the directory structure on the hard drive has been corrupted. This sort of thing can happen if wrong versions of some types of software are installed - for instance if something like a copy of DiskWarrior written for MacOS 10.3 is used on a system running MacOS 10.4.
If you can't get anything at all to run, I think the best course of action would be to boot the system using the original install disk by inserting that disk, then rebooting whilst holding down the C key. That should give you access to the MacOS installer. Before you run that, open and run Disk Utilities, and select the internal hard drive on the left. Click Repair Disk. This will very and repair errors on the hard drive. Unless it finds errors and reports it cannot fix them, you should then do an 'Archive and Install'. This will archive your current settings and applications and create a new copy of MacOS. When that's up and running, you can then reinstall your software. Bear in mind that you don't really need to install AIM, because iChat interfaces with the AOL instant messenger service, so you can use that instead.

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