Snow Leopard crashes on shut down

Whenever I try to shut down my Macbook (unibody 2.4) it crashes, and says "You need to restart your computer... etc" Is this a common problem? I'm on OS 10.6.1
Thanks.

Yes, I know what you mean--even though not good with logs. I was going to suggest a PRAM reset, but bumped into the read. I'm sure I am not a great kernel panic resolver. I usually post the read you did. Thought nothing would be lost by posting the Apple read too. However, I was wrong; Some of Apple's credibility with you was lost. And, now mine too since you mentioned the article's shortcomings.
Message was edited by: donv (The Ghost)

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