IChat Screen Sharing Kills Macbook -- Black Screen & Reboot

So this is kind of new. Yesterday I was screen sharing just fine, that's sharing my screen to another person.
Today I get an invite from a friend, asking for my screen, and I accept. I hear audio from his end for about a second then my macbook crashes and begins the boot sequence by itself.
I thought it was a small bug of some sort, I invited him to see my screen after I was all booted up.
Same thing. The screen went to black with strange color bars on it. I was going to get a picture but it started booting by itself again after 10 seconds or so.
Uhh.. any ideas?

Hi,
If there are two Mac Users on the computer they should be able to make the same changes to any iChat setting.
There are exceptions but these involve the Second account being subject to Parental Controls.
This, if the iChat Limit is set, stops a Person Adding Buddies without approval - depending on settings- and not using some Buddy lists (Bonjour in all versions and Jabber as well in 10.5.x) and possibly excluding some Buddies.
I must admit to have not tried Screen Sharing in an Mac User account with Parental Controls ON.
There is another Thread currently where the users is finding that Blue Tooth just being On is stopping Screen Sharing.
I have tested this and I can Screen Share with Blue Tooth on.
They are using a Apple Track pad that I don't have to compare with though.
Hope that gives you some clues.
11:18 PM Saturday; February 12, 2011
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