Screen goes light blue randomly, nothing do be done

So I have a mac mini g4 1.25 with 1 gig of ram with the latest version of tiger. Randomly, the computer will stop working and display a light blue screen with no cursor or anything. No dock or menus, just light blue. It really is random, it has occured while using quicktime, firefox, or itunes and I can't seem to establish a pattern. I think that the finder is quitting but not restarting. Typically it happens after my computer has been running for a while but I can't use my computer for more than a day without having to manually reset it due to the blue screen. Has anyone heard of this or does anyone know how to restart the finder via keystokes? Here's what I have tried to do:
Reset the PRAM
Ran disk repair utility
Uninstalled various programs (but my tiger install is recent, i.e. <3 weeks)
Please help!

anyone? I was thinking about reinstalling tiger but the whole point of owning an apple was that you dont have to reinstall like winblows xp.....please help!

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