HELP!! My Finder won't start

[bric0001]

Help!

I let a friend install his copy of black and white onto my mac (10.2.3, Quicksilver G4). When he quit, the screen went black, and now I don't have a finder.

Ran /sbin/fsck from the single-user boot,which "fixed" a massive number of errors, but no avail. I have a Sock, I have the right-hand icons, (date,time, etc) and provided i have an application open, I have the blue Apple and app. menu.

my system.log says:

Feb 4 18:58:40 HD1 WindowServer[192]: CGXGetWindowProperty: Invalid window 0
Feb 4 19:15:18 HD1 WindowServer[192]: CGXGetWindowProperty: Invalid window 0

Killing the process does just what one would expect--back to the login screeen (which works fine) but still no Finder on re-entry.

Please help. I really don't want to have to reinstall the whole system and go through all that again.

 

[symphonix]

Try running fsck -y again, and repeat until it reports no more errors. If it comes up with any errors at all, run it again.

Then, repair permissions on the disk using the Disk Utility.

 

[jeb1138]

Have you tried trashing the Finder preferences?
Try deleting these files and then relaunching Finder:
/Users/your-username/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
/Users/your-username/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist