Launching and shut down concerns

today as i was shutting down my PB the screen turned blue and the little clock like animation popped out and my notebook never shut down. being in a hurry i just shut the monitor hoping it was gonna be alright since i was in a hurry. it is a fact that it always takes is a couple of seconds if we opt to shut it right away instead of waiting for 2 mins.
so after work i got home and turned on my pb and suprise suprise as the power resumed the same thing happened....it didn't even go and ask for my password...it was just blue with the clock like animation. thinking that i can reset it, i removed the battery for 5 seconds and started it again. same result. my last move was to shut it by pressing down on the power button till it shut and after 10 seconds i started it again it worked like nothing went wrong.
of course i'm using it now. but should i be worried?
pj

I know it sounds like an oxymoron, but a lot of times your powerbook won't shut down properly due to what is in your startupitems folder in the library. So many times, if you remove the items in your startupitems folder, your problems will dissapear. I've found that it might happen every once and a while when I install some software that runs when you turn your computer on, so its not a big deal. Hope it all works out for you.

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