Blue Lights! Processor load maxed?

Another newbie question that I can't seem to find already dealt with. If it has been, a friendly pointer to the FAQ or solution is all I need.
My single processor G5 Xserve (1gig RAM, 2x80gig HD) is humming along just fine, except that today I noticed the blue "workload" lights maxed out. Activity Monitor shows 100% CPU Usage... very little of the usage (1-2%) is "system". The remaining 98-100% shows as "user" with 0 (ZERO)% Idle.
Checking out the running processes (all of them) shows that cron is running as a user process and is eating up the 97 or 98%....
The machine didn't do this for the first 4 days it was running. Any ideas? I've turned off (and on and off) website performance caching, and shutdown and restarted several times. No resolution.
Help?!?
Ideas?!?
Thanks in Advance!
-Case

Got it...
Cron was picking up 3 tab files from user "tmp". It seems they were just leftovers from a failed Norton AV install. Removing them has no effect, except that I have TONS of free processor cycles now...
Problem solved!
-Case

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I'm not near my ATV right now, but I checked out Superbad on the iTunes page, and it doesn't mention anything about 5.1. (Many of the HD movies have 5.1; some don't.)
Does it say that it's in 5.1 on the ATV rental page? If not, even though it is in HD, it may just be in stereo.
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