Macbook shuts down, dock is different on restart and expose has changed

I had a problem with using Keynotes as my macbook would shut down when doing basic tasks like adding transitions. So i finally reinstalled everything from fresh downloaded new keynotes from app store and the same thing happens.
Shuts down durng a basic task, mac boots straight back up dock animation gone, dock icons are all different, expose hot corners are all gone.
Very frustrated.
No other progs running other than Adium and skype.

Don't you think it should startup on adaptor? It was doing so 3 days Back..

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