Blue Screen when Logging in after Upgrade

Hi, I upgraded to 10.5.5 yesterday and had no problems.
Until today, just a few minutes ago when I started my iMac. A blue screen simply appeared and stayed instead of the login window. I tried out all kinds of keyboard commands but no reaction. Then I clicked the power-button on the back of my iMac and suddenly the login screen appeared, and then suddenly disappeared again as the iMac went into sleep mode.
Then I was able to wake it by clicking the button again, and the login screen was there. So nothing bad happened, but it got me very worried and disappointed. I am used to a lot more stability and perfection from Apple...
Please tell me if there's anything I should know relating to this incident, or if you want to know more.

What I said doesn't in any way say something about my interest. It's how I feel about the new version of Mac, and why I don't have backups. You bet ya I'm still interested in solving Mac issues, because I love Mac. I am constantly helping my friend who has just recently switched from Windows to Mac with technical/usage issues and I wouldn't come here in the first place if I wasn't interested.
But if this glitch doesn't happen to me again, then yes, you're right, I wont be interested in solving this particular mystery anymore, even though I hope Apple stumbles across it sooner or later and fixes it despite its harmlessness. Because if you go too far without noticing ugly, yet small things about the OS, it might turn into an OS with the reliability of a Windows.
However, above all of this, I am quite confident that Leopard, or rather "Snow Leopard" in this case, will bring back the stability and reliability to the Mac that I felt with Tiger.
I've read your signature, but try not to be too short/quick on determining my interest in topics that I start myself
Besides, everyone is in a bad mood at some point in time of the day/week and since pure text can't convey these feelings as an eye-to-eye conversation would, try to cut everyone some slack before coming to conclusions; being supportive is the best you can do when communicating with a person whose state of emotions you just cannot tell through this type of medium!
And in any case, I respect you. Seeing that you have already made thousands of posts in these discussion boards gives me confirmation that you also love Mac and that you also like helping strangers with their computers; that's something I can understand, not only from my past participation in topics here, but also from helping other people with web development on IRC.
Point is that if you felt like I disrespected you, or disrespected your offer to assist me in finding an answer to the original topic of this thread in particular, I didn't mean it. Hel, I appreciate the fact alone that you even wrote a response to my original post, so I hope I made my attitude to this forum and the people here clear.

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