Message pops up to force a power down - incipient death?

Well I never saw this dialog come up before.
I'm using my old PBG4 while my MBP is in the shop for a minor repair that I'm beginning to wish I never asked for. (But my AppleCare on my MBP was about to expire, so I figured I might as well finish up with everything in good shape.)
Anyway, my PBG4 was working basically ok, considering the specs. But just before a dialog, in multiple languages, popped up saying I needed to force a restart and to please hold down my power button. Everything was frozen at that point, including the cursor.
Disk utility reports no problems with the HD.
Anybody else ever see that happen?
Is my PBG4 nearing its end?
doug

It turned out the internal drive in the PBG4 was, in fact, dying. It went down three times and then sank forever beneath the surface. It rattled, made horrible sounds then went silent. It's not showing up in Disk Utility at all.
I did install a new system on an old 120 GB disk I found around the house. Even though I could install while mounted via firewire, afterwards I couldn't mount the system disk via firewire for some reason, though I could via the slow USB 1 interface.
I would like to return to that firewire mounting issue at some point, but while installing the system the doorbell rang and my 2006 MBP arrived back from Apple - just 48 hours after it was picked up. Not bad! (I had spent more time arguing with Apple about whether it needed a fix or not than it took for them to fix it).
Apple also found an error in the main logic board and replaced that, which was nice to have done before my AppleCare warranty expires this month.
Just in the last few months before my AppleCare warranty expired I had a troublesome trackpad and dead internal HD replaced. And now I've had a new keyboard installed and the main logic board replaced. It feels like a new, speedy computer now - and looks brand new too. I think the AppleCare warranty is definitely worth it. Things always seem to go wrong on Apple portable products I buy.
doug

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Hi Lyssa,
This is what is in the panic.log:
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panic(cpu 0 caller 0x000A8C00): Uncorrectable machine check: pc = 0000000000688BC8, msr = 0000000000149030, dsisr = 40000000, dar = 000000001C4E8040
AsyncSrc = 0000000000000000, CoreFIR = 0000000000000000
L2FIR = 0000000000000000, BusFir = 0000000000000000
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Exception state (sv=0x270BB500)
PC=0x00688BC8; MSR=0x00149030; DAR=0x1C4E8040; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x006ADD08; R1=0x1241BD80; XCP=0x00000008 (0x200 - Machine check)
Backtrace:
0x00000000 0x006ADD08 0x0003CA1C 0x000A9714
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.iokit.AppleAirPort2(405.1)@0x66a000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily(1.5.0)@0x61f000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.7)@0x48d000
Exception state (sv=0x369D2000)
PC=0x00000000; MSR=0x0000D030; DAR=0x00000000; DSISR=0x00000000; LR=0x00000000; R1=0x00000000; XCP=0x00000000 (Unknown)
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.0: Wed Oct 10 18:26:00 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.24.17~1/RELEASE_PPC
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Anonymous UUID: F4CF708D-D85C-4EC5-8047-4FC22C6B03AF
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RAX: 0xffffff8000000000, RBX: 0xffffff800d35a870, RCX: 0xffffff800cf55cd8, RDX: 0xffffff80008a8fcc
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Sorry for the long post, you can stop reading at whatever point my question seems clear
Where is the data located of previous tabs and windows from a previous Safari session - during a New Safari session - but PRIOR to slecting "Reopen All Windows from Last Session" ?
This question may be a bit confusing so I will provide the scenario that prompted this question, a few additional details, and lastly an illustration showing what I'm talking about that you can duplicate if you so choose. :-)
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I use Time Machine on my desktop Macs, both at home and the office but unfortunately Time Machine was not active on this laptop. Yes, If I had it I would simply revert to the old LastSession.plist file created in the last quit of Safari prior to the crash. But I don't have TM on this laptop, the LastSession.plist has thus been overwritten with the couple new tabs in the active session of Safari before it crashed, and thus the reason for my original post and question.
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