Macbook shuts down every few min. year ago started saying"StartVolum full"

my macbook just shuts down by itself in the middle of everything and with energy..
yesterday almost every 15 min but i was always able to simply turn it on again, like nothing happend, then almost 24h everything back to normal and just now it happend again two times...
about a year ago it warned, sometimes every 30 sec. the "Start Volume" was full and i would need to immediatly close some windows and erase some stuff so nothing would get damaged...
after six months give or take i turned my macbook on and everything was gone and its almost like back to factory settings, just some changes i had made, maybe the first year i had it...
itunes and iphoto was like never opened before.... and empty!!!!!
but i found some files somewhere which i think could be at least parts of my stuff but i couldn't open nor move them...
don't know what to do!!!! i'm absolutly nnnnooooo computer person.....
i actually didn't use it that much, i would have thought there must be more memory left, i used only itunes and iphoto and i had sims2 on it but didn't play and dodn't take space.....did i?
sorry for my bad english and grammar but i'm desperate
i love my macbook
Mac OS X Version 10.4.11
if that helps anything...

I had the same problem, and here's my fix.
Without calibrating the battery for a loong time, the battery no longer knew how much useable charge was left in itself! With 20 minutes left on the battery, the laptop would run out of battery and shut off without warning. It happened multiple times and I got frustrated. After calibration I got some charge time back, but more importantly, the battery now knew its limits and reported the correct amount of time left. And now it goes into sleep & deep sleep when it needs to.
If you have not performed a calibration in a long time (over a year), do the calibration twice. It worked for me! You might notice a very large change in usable charge after a calibration. Mine went from 5000 to 2000 after first calibration, then back to 3500 after another calibration. I am guessing that my true current capacity is around 3500, after 114 cycles. So your battery should be about 2900 or so?

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