Why wouldn't "sudo reboot" work?

This morning, as usual, I put my PowerBook to sleep at 8:29am, disconnected the power cord, unplugged the display and networking cables, and brought my PB to work, connecting it to the ethernet network and opening the lid. The display didn't turn on. I was able to ssh in via my trusty iPhone, and I typed "sudo reboot." The weird thing is that my PB didn't reboot (perhaps it just shut down?) See below at 9:10:49. Finally, at 9:13, I held the power key down to shut down.
Does that give any insight into what might be happening? Why wouldn't a reboot work?
Sep 11 08:29:08 Musa kernel[0]: System SafeSleep
Sep 11 09:09:03 Musa com.apple.loginwindow[45]: launchctl start error: No such process
Sep 11 09:09:05 Musa kernel[0]: mappinghibernateflush start
Sep 11 09:09:05 Musa kernel[0]: mappinghibernateflush time: 376 ms
Sep 11 09:09:05 Musa kernel[0]: hibernatepage_listsetall start
Sep 11 09:09:05 Musa kernel[0]: removed hash, pca: 2176 pages
Sep 11 09:09:05 Musa kernel[0]: hibernatepage_listsetall time: 276 ms
Sep 11 09:09:05 Musa kernel[0]: pages 435427, wire 122930, act 208417, inact 6286, zf 1722, throt 0, could discard act 38159 inact 41724 purgeable 16189
Sep 11 09:09:05 Musa kernel[0]: hibernatepage_listsetall found pageCount 339355
Sep 11 09:09:05 Musa kernel[0]: IOHibernatePollerOpen, mlget_interruptsenabled 0
Sep 11 09:09:05 Musa kernel[0]: IOHibernatePollerOpen(0)
Sep 11 09:09:05 Musa kernel[0]: writing 338446 pages
Sep 11 09:09:05 Musa kernel[0]: image1Size 312505344
Sep 11 09:09:05 Musa kernel[0]: all time: 20809 ms, comp time: 7112 ms, deco time: 0 ms,
Sep 11 09:09:05 Musa kernel[0]: image 745830912, uncompressed 1377361920 (336270), compressed 739405880 (53%), sum1 832ed62a, sum2 3eaac011
Sep 11 09:09:05 Musa kernel[0]: hibernatewriteimage done(0)
Sep 11 09:09:05 Musa kernel[0]: sleep
Sep 11 09:09:05 Musa kernel[0]: System Wake
Sep 11 09:09:05 Musa kernel[0]: Wake event 0020
Sep 11 09:09:05 Musa kernel[0]: USB caused wake event (EHCI)
Sep 11 09:09:05 Musa kernel[0]: UniNEnet::monitorLinkStatus - Link is up at 100 Mbps - Full Duplex (PHY regs 5,6:0x43e1,0x0005)
Sep 11 09:09:07 dhcp-128-83-77-123 configd[14]: setting hostname to "dhcp-128-83-77-123.frit.utexas.edu"
Sep 11 09:09:13 dhcp-128-83-77-123 airportd[2364]: Error: Apple80211Associate() failed -6
Sep 11 09:09:18 dhcp-128-83-77-123 kernel[0]: AFPSleepWakeHandler: waking up
Sep 11 09:09:21 dhcp-128-83-77-123 airportd[2364]: Could not find any preferred networks; trying broadcast requests..
Sep 11 09:09:22 dhcp-128-83-77-123 airportd[2364]: Broadcast requests also failed..
Sep 11 09:09:23 dhcp-128-83-77-123 airportd[2364]: Probing highest ranked networks via directed scan..
Sep 11 09:10:25 dhcp-128-83-77-123 sshd[2384]: USER_PROCESS: 2386 ttys000
Sep 11 09:10:48 dhcp-128-83-77-123 sudo[2400]: joey : TTY=ttys000 ; PWD=/Users/joey ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/reboot
Sep 11 09:10:49 dhcp-128-83-77-123 reboot[2400]: rebooted by joey
Sep 11 09:10:49 dhcp-128-83-77-123 reboot[2400]: SHUTDOWN_TIME: 1221142249 37848
Sep 11 09:10:49 dhcp-128-83-77-123 mDNSResponder mDNSResponder-171.4 (Apr 20 2008 12:00:04)[17]: stopping
Sep 11 09:10:49 dhcp-128-83-77-123 SystemStarter[40]: "/Library/StartupItems" failed sanity check: path was created after boot up
Sep 11 09:13:07 localhost kernel[0]: Darwin Kernel Version 9.4.0: Mon Jun 9 19:36:17 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.5.20~1/RELEASE_PPC

Have you tried booting holding the "s" key for Single User Mode? If it works at the prompt type, *fsck -fy* and press "return" it should do a disk repair. When that is finished press return again, then type reboot press return to get back to the Mac the way you know it.
Do you have a backup you can try booting from? Another option is to use another Mac in Firewire target disk mode, so you can copy data from it.
If you can get to your system, one way or the other, your log file indicates an issue with /Library/Startup Items, so the first troubleshooting step I'd take after fsck would be removing that folder to your desktop. It is usually empty by default so any items within you put there.
-mj

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