DARWIN/BSD

Good Morning Everyone,
My Imac booted this morning to a black screen saying: Darwin/BSD prompte me to put my user name and password which I did, then gave me another prompt! I typed "exit" and it seemed to want to boot to the desktop but it came ritght back to the same screen!!!!
What happened to my Imac? I haven't even been using it lately because I had some projects that I did on my PC! why is it looping like this? do I have to format again? I just had the hard drive replaced in September and it seemed to be fine after that!
HELP!
Thank you,
Lucia
Imac Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hi,
Ok, here is what I did.,....I powered it back up and this time I got back to the disk utility and run it again.....for some reason I can't explain it found a BUNCH of stuff that was apparently corrupted which it didn't find this morning...so I run the repair and then I was able to get back to the desktop.....in those errors was something about the flash player! which I don't remember installing.....and something about the widgets which I have not yet used since I replaced the HDD!!!
So to say the least this was really weird!
Thank you very much,
Lucia

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