Wont shut down  completely

I have a powerbook g4 1.67. And it wont shut down all the way when I try to. It just goes to my desktop screen and the little timer thing goes in circles in the middle of the screen. Tried hitting shut down today and it said it will shut down in 60 seconds if I do nothing. So I walked away and came back about 5 hours later and it still was doing that (screen had turned off but when I hit the enter button it went back to that screen).
Does anyone know whats wrong with my machine?

First off make sure that you force power down as Klayman42 did by pressing and holding down the power button until the Good Ol' Powerbook shuts down. Then try the suggestions that I made for Klayman42 in this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2096194&tstart=15

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