my startup is a freak out!

[Corrosive vinyl]

i have just gotten back onto my ibook g4 os 10.4.9 after a night of it being down. there were many issues which it spat out at me including
/code equivalence database opened READ ONLY (R/W failed)
JNL replay journal failed
/securityd[43] exited abnormally: abort trap
/lookupd[50] exited abnormally: hangup
Root Device mounted read only

I ran fsck using single user mode and I am back on.
please explain what might be happening with my kernal or HDD.
I am taking it to the apple store in a few weeks for them to really help me out, but I don't want it to die before that!

 

[iSaint]

1) Repair Permissions
2) Run Repair Disk from Disk Utility
3) Reset PMU

Let us know what happens next...

 

[Corrosive vinyl]

thanks for the site... i tried it.. so far so good.
restarted 2 times and so far no freak out.
my problem is this has happened before and it just keeps happening.

 

[iSaint]

Did the PMU reset help? Or, were there errors on the disk or permissions that were repaired in high numbers?

 

[Corrosive vinyl]

just the normal things are off.. but it boots up and works just the same as it did before but i tried verifying the disk and got this message:
Verifying volume “Vinyl”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
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Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Volume Bit Map needs minor repair
Checking volume information.
ed.",1)
Vinyl
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit


1 HFS volume checked
Volume needs repair

I can not click on the button which says 'repair disk'

 

[iSaint]

It's possible your HD is failing. How old is your equipment?

 

[Corrosive vinyl]

ok.. so i restarted with the install disk in and held shift and it repaired the disk and said that such and such was modified... i verifyed the disk and everything is kosher. thanks for the help and the technical guide!

its an ibook G4 bought August 2005.. I shall ask the genius bar when I manage to get to an apple store... I was worried about it being a bad problem and me just putting "band aids" on it instead of going in for surgery.. how you say.