Gray square box

I realize this is a bit off topic, but i was wondering if anyone you have had this issue. I was working in FCP the other day and I guess I was trying to do just too much at once and my g5 froze and the only way to power it down was to pull the plug. Holding in the power button didn't work. Now when I boot up, the computer shows the apple logo for about 1/2 second then a gray square box. The gray square stays on the screen until I reach my desktop. Computer boots to the desktop fine and i am able to use all apps. Does anyone know what this gray box is and if I should be concerned? i have posted an example here: www.suerothberg.com/IMG_3419.JPG
much thanks.

Onyx is basically the same as running fsck in a nice little app.
Do you have your project files on your system disc? (I do) that's what I would worry about backing up -- desktop setting are easy to redo -- it's the stuff that would take hours/days/weeks to re-do that you want to back up.
Home folder would backup everything (desktop, documents, music, settings etc) but could be fairly large.

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