Word crashes, slow functioning = imminent death?

My wife's ibook G3 has been having serious performance issues. It often performs even the most routine tasks in an astonishingly slow way. Word, especially, has been crashing often and unpredictably..
We have MacJanitor and Onyx and run them regularly (too often, in fact, out of desperation). I also do the disk-utilities permissions evaluation and correction thing. The problems persist. In an ominous sign, the hard drive is unusually audible and its sounds are not entirely healthy.
I replaced the battery on the iBook G3 a few months ago, after it basically died, but these other problems are persistent.
Is this G3 headed to the graveyard, or are there other steps to take? I thought of taking it in to a "genius desk" at a Mac store, but wonder if that's worth the trouble.

Did you follow the links in my above post?
Try booting into Safe Mode. This will take quite awhile longer, even, than a normal startup because it does a file check and repair of the hard disk.
You will see your normal desktop. Once completely started up in Safe Mode, restart normally, and go to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility. Click on the top hard drive icon in the left sidebar and note the S.M.A.R.T. status at the bottom right of the pane. What does it say?
Select the named boot volume in the left sidebar ("Macintosh HD" unless you've renamed it). What is the hard drive capacity and how much space remains available on it? Repair permissions on it.
If the iBook has less than 5 to 6 GB of available hard drive space, things can become sluggish.
See if a little hard drive maintenance helps things out.
The above tells you one way to deal with crashing and slowness, and also tells you how to figure out how much hard drive space you have remaining. The links appear in the identical post earlier in this thread.
Did you copy things over to the DVD without deleting them? If so, they are still there on your hard drive, taking up space.
If you deleted the items you copied to DVD, did you remember to empty the trash? The hard space is not regained until the trash has been emptied.
I would recommend a bit of hard drive maintenance before attempting to add another application (browser) to your hard drive.

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