What is wrong with my user account?? Why do I get kernel panic when restart

Hi there. I got Leopard and was quite unhappy (don't think it was meant for a powerbook). So I started using Tiger again, and I flip flopped once or twice after the update came out for Leopard, thinking/hoping it would fix my problems. It didn't. I have given up on Leopard.
But, now Tiger seems to have a few problems of its own. I get the kernel panic when I restart my computer (telling me to restart), so I have to hold down the power button to turn it off and then turn it back on. Not a big deal, but if it shouldn't be doing that, I don't want it to, ya know? Never did it before Leopard.
My user account seems to be dysfunctional when it comes to downloading plug-ins for safari or firefox. I had to create a new user account and download the plug in from that account and then drag it into the HD to use it on my user account. I repaired disk permissions and booted from Tiger and did the same thing on there. After that, my user account is still not able to download that plug-in without getting errors (256)?
Is there a way to do a reinstall of Tiger from a blank slate, and be sure there won't be any problems?
Thanks!

Leopard will work with your Powerbook, the question is, is all your software and hardware ready for it?
Is there a way to do a reinstall of Tiger from a blank slate, and be sure there won't be any problems?
You can start from a blank slate, but if you have a hardware problem that started to generate itself, a blank slate won't solve it. It is called an erase and install. The first thing to do is backup your data*:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
Once that is done at least twice, we can start looking at solutions for kernel panics*:
http://www.macmaps.com/kernelpanic.html
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation

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Interval Since Last Panic Report: 70893 sec
Panics Since Last Report:          1
Anonymous UUID:                    B0EBF408-CA6C-437B-94F5-F8903A84A934
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panic(cpu 0 caller 0x2ceabf): Kernel trap at 0x0144a8e2, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x00000033, CR3: 0x4c2a2000, CR4: 0x00000660
EAX: 0xffffffff, EBX: 0x06908400, ECX: 0xffffffff, EDX: 0x06928c60
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0x12ebc38 : 0x662a0f (0x6908400 0x12ebc98 0x8f 0x0)
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com.apple.driver.AppleHDA          2.2.5a5
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com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient          3.5.9
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com.apple.driver.AppleSMCPDRC          5.0.0d8
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com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless          1.0.0d1
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib          1.0.0d1
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com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyEventDriver          227.6
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OS X Mavericks: If your Mac restarts and a message appears
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Steve, thank you very much for the comprehensive explanation. Sorry, actually I wanted to see how many developers are aware of volatile variables specifics and how many of them are open minded. Not sure how this question addresses either of those questions.
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