Curtain of death when working

i have this little nagging curtain fof death that repeats itself every once in a awhile and it happened again this morning. makes me shut down the computer
Here is my console log from early this morning. Not sure what it means and just before i got the shut down prompt.
Mac OS X Version 10.4.7 (Build 8K1124)
2006-09-20 04:46:21 -0700
2006-09-20 04:46:22.158 Finder[136] CFLog (0): CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
2006-09-20 04:46:22.161 Finder[136] CFLog (0): CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
2006-09-20 04:46:22.468 SystemUIServer[135] lang is:en
Waiting for prefs changes...
Sep 20 04:46:27 guy-mancusos-computer-2 ntpdate[172]: no servers can be used, exiting

Try trashing the Finder preferences which you will find at ~/Library/com.apple.finder.plist. The best way to do it is to do a restart, wait a bit, just drag it to the trash then restart again.

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