Is Darwin DOS in a Mac case? How do I get back to Panther?

Does anyone know why my computer would stop its regular OSX 10.3.9 boot up, and default to a black welcome to Darwin screen. The screen is similar to a DOS screen. Scary, I thought this stuff didn't happen to macs! When I get to the screen the computer proceeds to ask me for user name and password. After typing that in, the computer it logs me in, but the rest is a foreign. I don't know what command to type in to make OS X start. I thought about trying to reboot the computer from the cd rom, but I cant even get the cd rom to open. Weird! Is there anyone out there that might know what to do? Some Genius that may know Darwin. The commands that is! I'd highly appreciate anyones help. PLEEEEEEEEASE HELLLLLLLP!
G4 1.25 Dual Mac OS X (10.3.9)
G4 1.25 Dual Mac OS X (10.3.9)
G4 1.25 Dual Mac OS X (10.3.9)
G4 1.25 Dual Mac OS X (10.3.9)

sounds like it is booting in single-user mode, this gives you a login without the gui, instead you get a unix shell
once you've loggged in and get the command prompt, type...
reboot
...and hit the enter key
this will shutdown the mac and restart it, it should then boot normally
if you still get the same after reboot, then put the osx disk in the drive, then login and reboot again
this time hold down the C key as the mac shuts down and restarts, once it starts booting it should load from the osx disk

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