As an alternative way of doing Hayne's suggestion, highlight the text in the code box below, and press shift-command-8.
A file should be generated on your desktop called D57DD981-FDE6-4C20-9AAA-EB8299D0B09A.txt. Attach that file to a post here. You may need to edit the file name before posting. The file will list the contents of the /Applications/Utilities folder.

The funny filename avoids possible conflict with a file of the same name on your machine.

[EDIT - Hayne has pointed out to me that keyboard equivalent command above doesn't work on his machine.

Highlighting the above code text and navigating through the Services Menu > Script Editor to 'Get Result of Applescript' should execute the above code correctly. On my system, a keyboard equivalent of cmd-* is shown for this menu option. cmd-* is shift-cmd-8 on a UK keyboard - other keyboards may use a different key.

Also should your browser use the same keyboard combo for something else then this action will fire, and not the one described above.

The above was suggested only as a way of getting around the problem of the malfunctioning Terminal.app and the self-stated level of the original poster's experience.]

Glad to hear that you're enjoying this
:)

They show up fine.
And they confirm that you don't have a Console application in the Utilities folder (like you said). I don't know what could have happened to it.

We could keep on debugging this problem but if you are getting tired of all of this, maybe the best (easiest) thing to do would be to reinstall OS X from your Panther CD. Let us know if you would prefer to keep on debugging this instead of just reinstalling (after reading the instructions below) and we can guide you through some more diagnostic procedures.

There are various options for the reinstall. You want to do an "archive and install" and be sure to select the option to preserve users. This will keep all your user files and just replace the OS X system files and applications.
You can read a bit more about this option in the paper booklet that came with tour Panther CD. If you can't find that booklet, here's a PDF version: http://download.info.apple.com/Apple...tall_Setup.pdf
After the reinstall, you should run Software Update afterwards to get your system up to date again.

Even though the "archive & install" with the preserve users option should keep all of your files intact, it would be best if you did a backup of your user files first - just in case something goes wrong.
You can make a backup onto CDs or DVDs (if you have a DVD writer), or onto an external disk.

After install come back and tell us how things are. Do you still have a problem?