Report after improper shutdown never works (ok, worked twice)

Question

Hi,
In the past three years, after 62 freezes, 10 kernal panics and other problems, I got my second window from the OS after rebooting, that says something like, the system did not shut down properly; would I like a report (or report it to Apple)? I clicked on report. Nothing happened. This has happened one time before. It too did nothing. I remember in the old OS 9 days that I would get messages all the time when recovering from a freeze, that the OS hadn't been shut down properly.
Shouldn't this work? Does it work for anyone else? As I say, It has only shown up twice in the past three years despite all these freezes that have caused the OS to not be shut down properly.
(I am a page or two away in my computer diary from posting more on all the freezes, kernal panics and other OSX problems I've had in the past three years. That will be a separate post.)
Thanks for any info.
John L

Answer 1

No, the computer was not being used during the last 3 freezes (and 1 kernal panic). I couldn't tell what time it froze last night but I had gone to bed, so some time between 1 and 9am. Previous to that, it froze at 5:42 am on Tues, 5/6, had a kernal panic at 3:56 am on Sun, 5/4 and froze when I was awake but not using it on Thurs, 4/24. Other recent freezes before these took place while I was using it for various things for at least a few of them, not going back too far...
It is online all the time. I just dim the screen, mute it and close all apps when I go to bed. OSX's firewall is always on and internet sharing always off.
I've looked into this in the past and never got too far. Things would clear themselves up soon enough. While I would like to minimize these problems, I will post a thread on this when my diary fills up, a few pages from now. So, we can wait 'til that happens to really dig into it.
I'd be curious if others have problems with this "report" thing.
Cheers and thanks.
John L