Wont get past Starting OS X on Menu

MY ibook g4 17 inch used to start up and go to the grey screen where the apple logo was and sometimes the loading wheel below it would not come up , I used to just turn it off and try and restart it and every now and again i would have this problem and sometimes i wouldnt have it at all. But now The computer gets past the grey screen moves to the blue and in the window it says starting Mac Os X and the blue bar loads completely but it never gets past the Loading screen it just sits there. I tried repairing the disk and some things were repaired while others were not. It gave me errors about some ofmy applications and files reading as rxrxr-r error when it should be rw-rw-r . What should i do? im into home recording and have lots of audio files and projects created that i do not want to loose and i also need my computer for school. But all i can do is let it sit and the loading screen or try re install osx and when i tried that it said there was a disk error and could not be done.

yes i did that and now i am using panther for my os but some of my software will not work, my cubase unesxpectedly shuts down, and imovie unexpectedly shuts down, ichat will just jump in the dock a couple of times when i try to run it but nothing happens, that also happens with iphoto, mail, safair, quicktime, and ical but garageband and idvd seem to work fine. Im now using osx 10.3.9. I can not find my black disk witht he x on it. i think that it was panther. If i buy tiger or wait for leopard will it fix my application problem? also im using internet explorer and whenever i go to the apple.com/downloads it freezes and i have to force quit it all the time so i can not get any downloads.

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