Random Grey Screens

Hi, i really wasn't sure where to post this.
I've recently bought an Digidesign Mbox 2, and with it i got Pro Tools LE 8.
I got it home, opened it up and installed pro tools, the drivers and the third party plugins that came with it. A couple of hours later, i was in system preferences in the Mbox2 Preference pane, and i closed it.. and for the first time my Macbook Pro grey screened with the "you must shut your computer down dialogue".
Ever since then it's been happening randomly.. i went to restart my computer and instead of shutting down and turning back on, it grey screened.
Furthermore, the Digi CoreAudio Manager doesn't detect my Mbox2, yet i can play songs through itunes with it set as the output device.. and when i run Guitar Rig 4 as a standalone application and go to preferences to tell it to use the mbox, it crashes everytime.
is this normal and expected with digi hardware and protools? is there something i'm doing wrong?
I've updated to Pro Tools 8.0.4 (latest, which supposedly supports Snow Leopard), ive tried using the standalone Digi core audio driver.. nothing seems to work.
I dont know if the grey screens are unhealthy for my machine, but they are definitely an annoyance, especially when i forget to save for a period of time and all of a sudden my entire system crashes (sometimes without pro tools or the mbox even being plugged in!!)
please shed some light for me guys.
Thank you
Josh King.

If you want to preserve the data on the boot drive, you must try to back up now, before you do anything else. It may or may not be possible. If you don't care about the data, you can skip this step.
There are several ways to back up a Mac that is unable to fully boot. You need an external hard drive to hold the backup data.
1. Boot from the Recovery partition or from a local Time Machine backup volume (option key at startup.) Launch Disk Utility and follow the instructions in this support article, under “Instructions for backing up to an external hard disk via Disk Utility.”
2. If you have access to a working Mac, and both it and the non-working Mac have FireWire or Thunderbolt ports, boot the non-working Mac in target disk mode. Use the working Mac to copy the data to another drive. This technique won't work with USB, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth.
3. If the internal drive of the non-working Mac is user-replaceable, remove it and mount it in an external enclosure or drive dock. Use another Mac to copy the data.

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