I've got a Core2Duo iMac that has been giving me some issues. For the last few days it's been randomly lagging out, freezing, then when I reboot it, I sometimes get a blinking question mark folder.

so i partitioned the drive into os x, os 9 and swap, making sure to install os x in the first 6 gb partition.<BR><BR>rebooted: flashing system folder.<BR><BR>so i wiped the disk, installed os 9, ...