G4 Blackout-Something I've never seen before; could be end of the machine

I have a Powerbook G4 that I use to run ProTools. Not the best machine for the job but it's served the gig well over the last year. The one thing was that it had always run kinda slow even on mundane tasks.
Since last weekend I've been trying to get it to run a little more smoothly.
I cleared out the hard drive, ran Disk Utility, Disk Warrior, checked Console Logs, etc etc etc.
After some research, I did an erase and install. I finished it up this morning. The thing ran like a dream. Restarts in well under a minute, fast operation, fast shutdown: just like a Mac should be.
Then I was back in ProTools, and the thing did something I have never seen a Mac do, ever.
I got a warning screen that ProTools was running out of CPU and that I should increase the Playback Engine settings, and then, before I could click out of the Alert message, the screen went black. The Hard Drives went down, and now the little rectangular white/blue light at the bottom of the monitor is calmly dim-flashing. Like HAL. I can't manually restart the thing. I can't shut it off. It won't respond to anything.
It doesn't look good.
Has anyone seen this before? Is there any way to bring the thing back?

Hi there.
I'm not familiar with ProTools per se, but in general if a mac laptop is frozen like that, I pretty well always start with:
1) Take the external battery out. 2) Pull the plug out from the back of the laptop. (this will force it to shut down) 3) Press the power button for a few seconds (to completely discharge any power). 4) Let it sit there and think about what it's done for around thirty minutes (or sometimes longer). 5) Plug the ac adaptor back in; Press power; Then the "zap the pram" thing (apple key + option key + p + r) as it starts up (make it do the startup "bong" for 3 - 5 times; Then let it complete it's normal startup.
Then see where you're at...
In general, I find that OS X is happiest when it has at least 5gbs free of hard drive space to play with - Protools may require it to have even more free so it can do it's thing. Are you sure you didn't accidentally remove a file Protools needs during your own "cleanup"? Also, after I run Diskwarrior on an os x drive, I always then run Disk Utility to repair permissions afterward - Diskwarrior is a great fixing tool, but some of it's ideas on what the operating system really needs aren't quite what the mac os x directory doc has ordered.

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