DVD Studio Pro 4 shuts down my G5!!!!!

Hi, new here.
Well, yes... Every time that I try to burn a disk or build one, my G5 10.4.3, Dual 2 GHz, 4 GB DDR SDRAM, shuts down. I've reinstalled DVD SP 4 but it still shuts down my computer. And when I mean "shut down" it REALLY turns it off.
Any suggestions, I'm about to fall in depression here.
help...

Obviously it should not be doing that, and there is certainly no "shut down my G5 spontaneously" option in DVDSP preferences.
How new is this computer? Or, in a related topic, how new is that 4GB of SDRAM in that computer?
Is this with a stock Apple SuperDrive or something else?
Have you installed the Pro Application Support update?
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/proapplicationsupport31macosx104.html
If not, try it. If so...
To me this sounds like a fundamental system software or hardware glitch. I would back up your projects, wipe the hard drive clean and install a fresh copy of the OS. Update. Then install and update a fresh copy of DVDSP 4 and update it too. Then try to build. If it still shuts down, I would say it was hardware-based. If you've recently added extra RAM, I would try pulling the new RAM and see if it cures things.

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