Can't Login - Login Window Offscreen..?

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Hey everyone,

I tried to boot up my powerbook today and noticed that it kept freezing at the "Starting Login Window" stage. I searched online and followed the instructions found at the bottom of this page.

When I rebooted at the end, the good news is that I got past the "Starting Login Window" freeze and to the window where I click my username.... the bad news is that this window (and possibly everything else) has been shifted up and to the left so that it's barely on the screen.

If I click my username, the login window goes away, presumably as if it logged in normally, however, I cannot access the dock, menu bar, or anything. At first I thought the display was shifted, however, if I press the EJECT or MUTE key, the icon shows up right in the middle like normal.

Any ideas what this could be and how I might troubleshoot it? I can login to Single-user mode fine, and also have another mac to do a target disk boot. Thanks for the help!
 
If the other Mac has the same OS version (or newer), then boot the powerbook into target disk mode and connect it via firewire cable to the other machine.

On the other machine, run Disk Utility on the powerbook's drive.
Only do this if the other machine has the same or newer OS version.

After Disk Utility has run and all is well with the powerbook's drive, eject the powerbook's drive from the other machine and disconnect the firewire cable.
Reboot the powerbook.
If the login screen is still wonky, try rebooting into Open Firmware and typing:
reset-nvram (then hit the return key)
reset-all (hit the return key)

The machine should reboot.
Is the login window restored to it's centered location?
 
Also start in Single User Mode and repair the hard drive that way directly:

restart and hold command + s till you see black screen with white text/type fsck -f (this will check your harddrive)/type reboot when operation finished.

Reboot will restart your machine and hopefully will have fixed your strange screen/log in operation. Did you install anything recently that might have caused this change?
 
what's with all the HTML code in your post? please remove it, it looks ugly and doesn't do any good. :)
 
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