MacBook froze in a new and bizarre way

I'm reinstalling the operating system now, but what happend was so bizarre.
I left it alone for a minute, and when I came back, the screen was frozen but with a layer of see through grey over it with some weird status bar at the bottom. Then it restarted and brought me to a login screen and prompted me for a username and password. It didn't accept my username and password.
Then I noticed what it said on the box "PowerBook G4" - the machine is a MacBook Pro. Strange. It would not let me log in whatsoever.
So now I'm reinstalling the operating system, archiving of course. I hope it works and the cleanup isn't too complicated.
Anyone know what went wrong?
Message was edited by: gpost86

HI and Welcome to Apple Discussions...
You need to get the machine specific disks that are for your MBPro and your MBPro only.
How long have you had this Mac?
Carolyn
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