I have recently ditched wintel & bought a 2nd bondi ibook like you. (32Mb base ram & OS 9.04)
Short story, it stank, very unstable.
Lessons learn't:
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1. upgrade the firmware (d/l it from apple)
2. install more ram (I installed additional 128Mb=160Mb total)
3. Get & clean Install OS 9.1 (optionally update to 9.2.1 if desired)
Now no prob's