[dantewaters]

How do I reset all my settings or at least turn of hibernating and safe sleep?
I even reinstalled Tiger and no difference this seems to be deeper than OS.

Ok I was at my witts end with my powerbook
constant lockups, and the dread error message: http://tinyurl.com/yhmk39

But I discovered it was because I tired to enable hibernation
and all my lock ups are because of it. This is the website I used:

How to Safe Sleep (Hibernate) Your Mac - AndrewEscobar.com

Now I followed the method of turning if off, and assumed
it was off till I awoke this morning only to find that faded grey screen
with the tiny bars across the bottom and a lock up right after.

[dantewaters]

Just got this from terminal:

Last login: Wed Dec 31 19:00:44 on console
Welcome to Darwin!
dante-waters-powerbook-g4-15:~ sincere$ sudo pmset -a hibernatemod 0

We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:

#1) Respect the privacy of others.
#2) Think before you type.
#3) With great power comes great responsibility.

Password:
Usage: pmset [-b | -c | -u | -a] <action> <minutes> [<action> <minutes>...]
pmset -g [disk | cap | live | sched | ups | batt
-c adjust settings used while connected to a charger
-b adjust settings used when running off a battery
-u adjust settings used while running off a UPS
-a (default) adjust settings for both
<action> is one of: displaysleep, sleep, disksleep (minutes argument)
or: reduce, dps, womp, ring, autorestart, powerbutton, halfdim,
lidwake, acwake, lessbright (with a 1 or 0 argument)
or for UPS only: haltlevel (with a percentage argument)
haltafter, haltremain (with a minutes argument)
eg. pmset -c dim 5 sleep 15 spindown 10 autorestart 1 womp 1
pmset schedule [cancel] <type> <date/time> [owner]
pmset repeat cancel
pmset repeat <type> <days of week> <time>
<type> is one of: sleep, wake, poweron, shutdown, wakeorpoweron
<date/time> is in "MM/dd/yy HH:mm:ss" format
<time> is in "HH:mm:ss" format
<days of week> is a subset of MTWRFSU
[owner] optionally describes the event creator
dante-waters-powerbook-g4-15:~ sincere$

[rjt1000]

(Assuming you already tried the troubleshooting in the link you posted)

I would back up the data from your hard drive, startup from your system restore disk, utilize disk utility from the restore disk to format the hard drive, then reinstall the system software.

If the kernel panics continue after that, consider a hardware problem.