[G4] Crawling Finder

[The Sargents]

Hi,
	I've got a 933 Mhz Quicksilver G4 with 768 mb of Ram running 
10.4.8. The other day the wife was dragging many many many files to 
the trash when the machine instead started copying them to the desk 
top. She tried unsuccessfully to abort the operation  but could not 
stop it. She had to force quit the finder . Upon restart there are no 
icons on the desktop, not even hard drives, and the finder is 
amazingly slow to react. I repaired permissions after booting from 
the OS X install disk, no change. Ran Disk Warrior, no change. 
Started up in Single user mode,  ran fsck and then removed the 
finder.plist and sidebar.plist per The X Lab web site. Still slow and 
painful to work with (reminds me of my Performa 6200) :-( Tried Drive 
Genius- slightly faster, still no desktop. My Konfabulator widgets 
see my hard drives and all my menu items are there (S.M.A.R.T. 
status, WeatherPop, JumpCut, Konfabulator, etc) Applications run, 
albeit slowly.
	Any help would be appreciated!
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Chris
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"It's such a fine line between stupid and.....clever."
David St. Hubbins & Derek Smalls, Spinal Tap
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