Screen becomes black with a reboot message in the center

During normal operations a black translucent curtain drops from the top of my Late 08 Macbook Pro's screen and a multi-lingual message box appears in the center of the screen telling me I must reboot.
This never happened prior to installing Snow Leopard.

Hi,
Your computer is panicking for some reason. They, the panics, can be easily resolved. Try in here...
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/kernelpanics.html
Post back if you need more.
Regards.
Ian.

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