Force Quit / Restart problem

An odd little problem just occurred. I have a HP Scanjet 7400c scanner, and the latest HP scanning software. It’s not great, but it works; I’ve had no problems with it before (not on this particular G5, anyway). Today I noticed that the little black arrow in the Dock that indicates the app is open was sat next to the scanner software icon. I was working in Photoshop cs2, but I hadn’t opened the scanning software!
I saved and closed all other apps and tried quit the HP software. Nothing, so tried to force quit the app. Nothing. Couldn’t restart the Finder, couldn’t restart. In the end I was forced to shut down by holding down the power button, after which I repaired permissions in Disk Utility, ran Cocktail and did a swift session on Diskwarrior to make sure everything was OK. No problems found.
I’m not au fait with everything my G5 does, but I want to keep it healthy. Anybody got any idea what this was – and should I worry?

My HP 3970c starts up without my prompting either. Although it, if I click it in the Dock lets me quit it directly from the Dock. Check your Apple menu -> System Preferences -> accounts -> select the login account that you use, and click on Login items. You'll see whether or not it is set to automatically start up there.

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