Computer logging out on own?

Recently my Powerbook G4 15" will be running just fine, I will stop working for a bit only to come back and instead of finding it sleeping, it appears to have completely restarted or logged out on it's own. I have to log back in (as if it had been restarted rather than sleeping), and find that all applications that had previously been running, etc. must be restarted.
I have also found it w/ the message 'log-out failed'... when I didn't try to log out. Any thoughts?
Thanks!

You might check the System Preferences/Security for selecting " Log out after x minutes of inactivity." I think I had the same thing happen once and didn't think I'd selected that.

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