called Apple...they were completely unhelpful :mad: :(...I called them, got a guy, told him what has been happening, he then told me to boot off the installer cd and told me to run the disk check in the Disk Utilitiy off the cd, of course no errors were returned because the issue is intermitint and not occuring as of now :(, he then tells me that he can't help me since it's not happening right now and recommends I bring it into my local Apple store to have them check my mac. However do you guys think the Apple store will be any more helpful? Do you think they may actually try to discover the issue with the HD and replace it like it needs to be? What should I do? I feel like I'm at a dead end now with a dying HD....:( ugh!

EDIT: Also, do you guys know of any utilities similar to the Apple Hardware Test that work on Tiger that may find the problem with my HD (e.g. produce a error)?

I'd clone the disk to an external FW drive, then use that to boot.

If you can work without trouble when booted from the external drive, re-format the internal drive completely using the zero all data security option, re-install the OS. Check if it runs stable before you copy over your custom setup using the Migration Assistant.

If there are any problems in the process of re-installing, you should have a completely Apple-compatible reason to have the disk changed.

well...guess I really don't have all that much of a choice...:(...I'll try that and *crosses fingers*....who knows maybe that will solve the problem, thanks for the advice as it is much appreciated, will be sure to keep you guys updated as to whether this solves the problem or not :)

well I just reinstalled MacOS X Tiger and am in the process of reinstalling the apps which I backed up on cd...however I notice that my mac is acting strange...when I try to load Dreamweaver it takes forever, maybe 2 minutes to load, before it took only 10 seconds or so, and a look at Console shows the following concerning lines:

Jun 13 15:13:20 john-musbachs-powerbook-g4-12 KernelEventAgent[68]: tid 00000000 received unknown event (12)
Jun 13 15:18:22 john-musbachs-powerbook-g4-12 KernelEventAgent[68]: tid 00000000 received unknown event (12)
Jun 13 15:19:49 john-musbachs-powerbook-g4-12 KernelEventAgent[68]: tid 00000000 received unknown event (12)
Jun 13 15:21:32 john-musbachs-powerbook-g4-12 KernelEventAgent[68]: tid 00000000 received unknown event (12)
Jun 13 15:22:01 john-musbachs-powerbook-g4-12 authexec: executing /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/Current/Support/LaunchCFMApp
Jun 13 15:27:06 john-musbachs-powerbook-g4-12 /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/ATS.framework/Support/ATSServer: FOExceptionMainHandler caught a fatal exception at 0x000476d8

Jun 13 15:27:06 john-musbachs-powerbook-g4-12 /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/ATS.framework/Support/ATSServer: ATSServer got a fatal exception!! Please check /var/tmp/ATSServer_98.

Anyone got a clue if these lines are bad or ignorable?

They look bad. I'm guessing this is something specific to Dreamweaver and its licensing. Maybe check with Macromedia's site.
But note that with these apps, you often have to reinstall them from the original media - you can't just copy them across from another drive it seems (from other trouble reports I think I recall reading).

hmm, well thanks for your reply :), this is weird because I'm installing it in the same manner as I did originally before I just reformatted my HD and zeroed it out...is ATSServer even related to Macromedia products or is that a MacOS X Tiger application? :confused: