I did something dumb, now my iBook won't start. Help please!

Yesterday I was preparing to back up my 3000+, 1+ megabyte photos. They
were being exported to what I thought was a folder on my desktop.
Unfortunately there was no folder and the photos were all dumped onto
the desktop itself. This effectively froze the finder, but I thought
that it was a recoverable situation. I would simply reboot from the CD
and install a new system. However, the catastrophe is that after
shutting down the computer it will not restart. Dead. Nothing happens.
Suggestions short of hari kari would be graciously received. Thanks.

iBook G4 - System 10.3.9 - 384MB ram - 30GB hard disk- 2gigs of photos

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On Sun, 22 May 2005 02:00:13 -0700, JR wrote
(in article <user-A575A1.11001322052005 RemoveThis @news.t-online.com>):

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> Yesterday I was preparing to back up my 3000+, 1+ megabyte photos. They
> were being exported to what I thought was a folder on my desktop.
> Unfortunately there was no folder and the photos were all dumped onto
> the desktop itself. This effectively froze the finder, but I thought
> that it was a recoverable situation. I would simply reboot from the CD
> and install a new system. However, the catastrophe is that after
> shutting down the computer it will not restart. Dead. Nothing happens.
> Suggestions short of hari kari would be graciously received. Thanks.
>
> iBook G4 - System 10.3.9 - 384MB ram - 30GB hard disk- 2gigs of photos
>
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Did you hold down the C key when trying to restart? I would try starting
in safe mode. Finally, you could try hooking up a Firewire from another
Mac and treating it as a hard drive. Then, move the pictures to a folder.
This link has some short cuts for booting options.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75459