Satellite Pro A200 freezes, including on/off button

Had a complete system freeze last night - first the firefox browser tabs, then, when I tried to call up task manager, STRG+ALT+DEL didn't work either. I pressed the off-button repeatedly, but couldn't turn the laptop off.
After disconnecting the power cable the power led remained blue, and it still ran on battery, although the battery led was off. I left the laptop on (what else could I do) until the battery was emptied and it shut itself down.
This morning, it came up normally, followed by this error message:
"the exception unknown software exception (0x0eedfade) occurred at location 0x7c812a5b".
Followed by a windows update screen that updates were completed and the computer would restart soon (just in case that can be connected - the night before, the "updates available" symbol was in the shortcut-bar too, and when it froze, I was running my daily Spyware Doctor virus check in the background).
I restarted the computer without further error messages, and it has been fine so far, but I've no idea what caused this, and if it will happen again. Any advice?

> I left the laptop on (what else could I do) until the battery was emptied and it shut itself down.
What else could you do?
First of all you could hold the power button pressed for about 4 sec and this would help tp shut down the notebook. Then you could restart the notebook to check if the system would run properly. However, it seems its running again.
> I restarted the computer without further error messages, and it has been fine so far, but I've no idea what caused this, and if it will happen again. Any advice?
Believe me, its really not easy to say what caused this system issue and I assume nobody here will be able to provide EXCATLY answer.
In my opinion there was a software issue which was solved by new reboot and new Vista update
Such strange things happen always and are not uncommon to me.
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