OS X fails, freezes desktop

My PowerBook G4 is running OS 10.3.9. When I left it on and returned after an hour, the screen was frozen. The message that came up when I tried to restart said that OS X had failed. I was able to restart the computer. This has happened 3 times recently. What's happening?

Try using Disk Utility to do a Disk Repair, as shown in this link, while booted up on your install disk.
You could have some directory corruption. Let us know what errors Disk Utility reports and if DU was able to repair them.
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