Upgrading a G4 iMac

Just have attempted to complete a Leopard upgrade on a 6 year old iMac G4 (1 GHz; 768 M RAM). After some hassles getting the install disk to complete the install (had to repair permissions multiple times for the program to recognize the destination drive), the operation apparently completed. The installer updated to 10.5.2 and all the programs also seem to be at current versions. Only now, many Apple-branded programs (notably iChat, Software Update, iTunes and Safari) won't launch.
The launch attempts result in the bouncing dock icon and then a "unexpectedly quit" message. I'm not good at reading the crash reports, but iTunes and iChat seem to relate to a Java problem (???).
I've tried additional permission repairs and re-installation of current QuickTime, but the same results.
Have I hit the end of the road for this classic machine??!!

Not really. The real question here is the method of install used?
1. Did you archive and install, upgrade and install, or erase and install?
And if archive or upgrade, what was the older Mac OS X version?
2. Did you use a retail Leopard installer disc which looks like *?
3. Was your data backed up before installing?
4. If upgrade or archive (see question 1), did you make sure all the applications that are having trouble were situated inside the Applications folder as they were when they were first installed? Moving Applications to other folders the actual applications could leave you with older versions which don't work with the newer operating system still in your Dock, or shortcut bars.
If you are launching from an alias, locate the original. If it isn't in the Applications folder then it likely wasn't updated.
- * Images hosted on my website may give me compensation.

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I haven't received any replies when I posted the same on the logic forum, would appreciate if you could take some time and post ur suggestions..
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