To check your hard disk, you need to run a program on the command line (where you are when you stop the boot sequence in single user mode) called fsck (pronounced “eff-ess-check” by Unix cognoscenti). I’m only going to address that last scenario, as I bet that’s what’s wrong. One of three things can occur: it’ll reboot and go into full GUI mode as if nothing was wrong (and perhaps nothing is wrong!), it’ll reboot and go back to single-user mode, or it’ll try to progress by scanning your hard disk for errors and fail with some horrible errors. If nothing’s significantly wrong, it might be acting weird so a first test would be to type reboot at the prompt and see what happens. You can force a Mac to do this by holding down the Command (cloverleaf) and S keys on boot up. What’s happening with your Mac OS X Panther PowerBook is that it’s booting into single-user mode, rather than automatically moving through the different init states into multi-user, full GUI, network mode. While your computer doesn’t heal in the same way that your body does, the situation you’re in should be recoverable. This sounds like a terrible situation and I’m certainly sorry to hear about your auto accident.
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