intel 24" 2.4ghz asorted problems

[almiroty]

hi:
my imac is acting weird. recently i lost the desktop. i thought it was a crash and rebooted, but nothing. all the files in the desktop are gone, vanished, poof

before that, safari was not oppening some pages. for some i only see the background, for others nothing. i just use firefox now, but i want to know why this is happening.

on mail, i cannot see any of the messages sent or received before march 12, 08. i can see the subjet, date, sender, but nothing comes up on the body of the message. if i try to delete them the sender's name, subject, date, etc. is greyed out, but does not diapear.

i am running 10.5.4 with 3 gb of ram.

can somebody help me, please?
tia
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[macgig]

do all the normal maintenance stuff.... zap pram, rebuild permissions, verify preference files, etc. google osx maintenance

 

[almiroty]

i forgot to post that all that i had done maintenance, plus ran disk warrior and tech tools. no difference!
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[Chilbear]

Try adding a new account, log out and in and see if the problem is duplicated in the new user.

 

[almiroty]

how can i get acess to the original account's mail folder from the new user account?
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