Mac Mini DISTRESS!! Please help!

So I've been a fan of my mac mini (and apple in general) for two years now. It's worked great! I've played games on it, explored the web, gotten an extensive Itunes library.. Done it all..
Now, recently, I've gotten a HUGE problem! This has happened for the last couple of days:
After a little of use, the mac mini begins a process of going into sleep (I think) completely out of the blue. It justs stops all sound and goes black on me, no matter what I'm doing. I'll jiggle the mouse/hit the keyboard and BAM! It's back. Well after a few seconds it does this again. Again, again, and again! Sometimes the intervals changes, but it's frustrating to the point that I shut it off completely and walk away to find some other time-consuming activity. Well I need my mac back -.-...
This problem happens all the time. If I shut it off for a while, it takes about and hour (give or take) for this to happen again. I'm thinking maybe my fan is broken or something?
If you need me to describe ANYTHING a bit more, JUST ASK!! Thanks so much for looking.. I really need some help..

Ah, well, Schism Fan never got back to me about the meaning of his smiley.
My Mini G4 has developed the same problem. It started after I upgraded to Leopard, and it seems to be getting worse. The problem only occurs when my processor is under a steady, heavy load. The fan suddenly kicks into an abnormally high gear, and a few seconds it goes to sleep.
The issue is almost certainly related to overheating. I don't see any unusual dust build-up, but I vacuumed it anyway. It didn't help. I also tried deleting com.Apple.PowerManagement.plist as suggested.
As a workaround, I have taken to putting one of my kids' lunch-bag freezer packs under the Mini before giving it a strenuous task. It works, but it's a pain. For a really big task (say, an iDVD encode), I may even have to change freezer packs a couple of times.
My Mini is at the low end of Leopard's system requirements -- 1.2 GHz G4 with 512 MB RAM. I've been pleased with the way it runs Leopard, with this one major exception.
Would a RAM upgrade possibly alleviate the symptoms? Or is my processor likely to be overtaxed by Leopard no matter what I try?

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Anonymous UUID:
147DF3C2-766B-E92F-813F-5836E564F660
Mon Jan 5 00:15:42 2015
panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff800b8dc43e): Kernel trap at 0xffffff800b8c5c17, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x0000000080010033, CR2: 0xffffef802df39ae0, CR3: 0x000000012c05807f, CR4: 0x00000000000606e0
RAX: 0xffffff802ddd71d0, RBX: 0x0000000000000001, RCX: 0xffffef802df39ae0, RDX: 0x00007fff71a8b000
RSP: 0xffffff801834bc20, RBP: 0xffffff801834bcf0, RSI: 0xffffff802de98860, RDI: 0xffffff800bed1770
R8: 0x00007fff71a00000, R9: 0x00007fff71c00000, R10: 0xffffff800bed1600, R11: 0x0000000000000139
R12: 0x00000000000002eb, R13: 0xffffff802deae1f0, R14: 0x0000000000033443, R15: 0xffffff801d219738
RFL: 0x0000000000010202, RIP: 0xffffff800b8c5c17, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000010
Fault CR2: 0xffffef802df39ae0, Error code: 0x0000000000000002, Fault CPU: 0x2
Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff801834b8b0 : 0xffffff800b822f79
0xffffff801834b930 : 0xffffff800b8dc43e
0xffffff801834bb00 : 0xffffff800b8f3976
0xffffff801834bb20 : 0xffffff800b8c5c17
0xffffff801834bcf0 : 0xffffff800b8c60b7
0xffffff801834bd50 : 0xffffff800b87e2fa
0xffffff801834be60 : 0xffffff800b8825cf
0xffffff801834be90 : 0xffffff800b83d9e3
0xffffff801834bed0 : 0xffffff800bbcee8e
0xffffff801834bf40 : 0xffffff800bbcebbc
0xffffff801834bf50 : 0xffffff800bc40c63
0xffffff801834bfb0 : 0xffffff800b8f4176
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Mac OS version:
13F34
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 13.4.0: Sun Aug 17 19:50:11 PDT 2014; root:xnu-2422.115.4~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 9477416E-7BCA-3679-AF97-E1EAAD3DD5A0
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Kernel text base: 0xffffff800b800000
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last unloaded kext at 326089426755: com.apple.filesystems.msdosfs    1.9 (addr 0xffffff7f8d64f000, size 57344)
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