Unix on Bootup (I think)

Five days ago, before going on vacation, my G5 iMac with OS X 10.4 was running fine other than the time being off by 10 or so hours for some reason (repeated fixes would not hold). I returned from vacation today and when I tried to play a song snippet on iTunes, it seemed to stutter and run very slow. I eventually shut down the other programs (it wouldn't let me shut down iTunes), and restarted. I ended up seeing
-sh:/etc/profile: is a directory
-sh-2.05b##
After a minute or two I hear what is either the DVD drive running (there's no disc in it) or a fan. It does respond to typing in "help" by showing a list of commands.
I think I might be in command option mode, but don't know how to return to Tiger. I've tried a forced shutdown and resetting the SMV. Even with everything unplugged other than the power cord, it keeps doing the same thing.
Any help would be appreciated.
Dan

Initially I didn't realize there were two (+/- iSight) iMac G5 models. I brought my computer in to the Apple store today (it's under warranty). Sure enough, they said it was booting to Unix. When they hooked up an external boot drive it booted fine and the time was correct (the "Genius" didn't know why there was a problem with the clock but said it could have been an OS X glitch). He ran Disk Warrior. Unfortunately that didn't fix the problem with it booting to Unix. I could have left the computer with them but they said it was possible they would have to reformat the drive. I could have spent $50 to have them back it up, however I discovered I only have 43 GB available on my 250 GB drive (I have a lot of photos, music and video - most of the data is available on video tapes, slides, etc., but it would take a lot of time to get it back on to the computer). I decided it would be best to invest in an external hard drive to give me extra storage space, and to use a back up drive.
I purchased a 1 TB Western Digital My Book Pro Edition II drive. I couldn't run the included My Book RAID Manager or EMC Retrospect, however, as I couldn't boot the computer from my hard drive. I next tried to install OS X onto the My Book drive, but the Installer said this could not be done. I thought about using my iPOD to install Tiger, but unfortunately I don't have nearly enough free space.
I'm now copying a disc image of Macintosh HD to the My Book drive via FireWire 400. At the rate it's going, I think it will take 10-15 hours. My thought is that after I have the disc image I can bring the machine back to Apple. If they erase my data I can use the disk image to get my data back, assuming it was a hardware issue. If it was a corrupted file, then I'm concerned using the disk image would reintroduce the problem. Another thought just occurred to me. My daughter has an iBook (circa 11/05). Perhaps there's a way to hook her computer to mine so my G5 sees her iBook as an external drive that I could boot off. Thoughts? Thanks.
Dan

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