Startup had White Repeating Staircase and Cursor did not Respond

Hello there, very odd experience. I recently updated to Leopard and it's been alright but tonight when I turned on my laptop I received a white repeating staircase over a light blue background. Every other line was thicker than the other and this did not go away for at least 15 minutes when I freaked and restarted. An image of the cursor was fixed in the upper right hand corner but there was another cursor with a small rectangular grid attached to it that I tried to click with but the menus must not have been there (could only see white staircase thingie over light blue). The issue was resolved when I restarted. N.B., I did have my ProTools dongle attached and detached it before restarting. Is this a known issue and would it have had anything to do with the dongle?
Thanks much for any insight.

hello, maybe it's an issue with the protected mode in the flash plugin - you could try if [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/flash-113-crashes#w_solution-2-downgrade-to-flash-10-3 downgrading to flash 10.3] (which is still supported) or [http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1018071#TemporaryWorkaround disabling protected mode] makes a difference.

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