It worked out great - however slightly different than written above...
With the option key down at start up, the machine could only find the OS X system, this is most likely because what had caused the apps not to run OS X, also didn't allow the computer to recognize the Finder in the OS 9...
Does that mean, the OS recreates the "finders" preferences each time it boots? - and if so, could i just load in my back up user files ontop of the current ones? - since moving to OS 10, i have tried to back up my user dir once a week... does the OS not care when the files were created? - and...
I reluctantly had to force quit OS 10.0.4 on my powerbook and when I restarted all icons are folder icons and absolutely no apps will run - cant change prefs to get into OS 9, aigh! - Anyway, please let me know if there is a "rebuild desktop" so it can find all of its icons and discover that the...