Cannot open ANY folders/files/apps in 10.5 ??

Here is the problem.

Last night turned on the mac, go to open a folder or a file or even an app and nothing opens. I double click on any folder in Leopard and it just does not open. I can open the folder using cmd+o, the folder opens but their is no contents in the folder; pressing cmd+i though shows that their are files in the folders.

Another strange thing is when i open the finder and select applications for example their will be nothing in the folder, but come a few seconds later and i go back to open the applications folder, all the contents are their but cannot open any apps.

I just cannot wrap my brain around it. Ive tried repairing permissions, restarting the finder app, but nothing.

Im using 10.5.3 btw. And the only way i can open a folder and see its contents is via quicksilver.

Any help appreciated.

 

I manged to open disk utility with quicksilver. I ran verify disk and it found the following:

Checking Extended Attributes file.
Incorrect number of Extended Attributes
(It should be 3446 instead of 3420)

The volume Leopard needs to be repaired.
Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed.

I guess i should run disk utility from the disk, then it may allow me to repair the disk. I shall report back...

EDIT: I repaired the disk successfully when booting up from the leopard DVD. But unfortunately i still have the same problem.

 

Repaired permissions and did it successfully. I can now open the files on my desktop (but i do not think this was down to repairing permissions since when i restart its all problematic again) as well as other places e.g. my documents, movies etc. But if something is in a folder e.g. /documents/work, the work folder would open but not show its contents.

BUT. Now give it a few seconds and i go back to that folder, the contents are displayed.

Something strange is going on. 1 min no items in a folder then the next min there are items in the folder. . But when i restart everything goes back to how it was in my first post.

 

I don't particularly want to reinstall leo, but it may have to be the case. Although pretty time consuming since i have bootcamp set up as well.

 

^ says its found no problems/everything okay. Still getting same problem though.

Appreciate all of your help, but still no luck. I have never come upon such problem before.

Guess i am gonna go prepare for a reinstall.