Tiger "quits" when eject ext flash drive???? Addressless addressbook

Folks:
Issues continue to crop up with Tiger, unlike those seen in Panther. A week back was finishing up working on a document which I saved to ext flash drive--closed the writing app, moved doc into flash drive, then ejected Flash drive by control/click and then maybe closed another app or turned off airport wireless &&& then got black window saying "You need to restart your computer." Then after restarted got an error window that said something like -- "You had to re-start your computer because OSX quit in the middle of what you were doing." OHHHH, the computer crashed!!!!??? I have ejected the Flash drive many times without this problem. Console crashreporter log showed single line entry for the time period that it happened--Thu Jun 21 17:41:44 2007 crashdump[94]: crashdump invoked as panicdump.
Is this what 4.10 is supposed to fix???
2). Needed my Addressbook to get email address of friend--opened the "ALL" part and there was only 15 or so addresses instead of what should have been 147 or so. Went to one of the smaller groups folders and all of the addresses were there??? How can there be more addresses in sub-category folder than in the total "All" folder?? Flipped back to the "All" folder after that just seconds later and lo and behold--all addresses were there??? This actually never went on with Panther frankly were stuff disappeared and the reappears seconds later--Is this an example of the SMART folder??? Will 4.10 fix this issue??
eep

Folks:
Looking for some thoughts or ideas on why the entire system would "quit"--perhaps due to ejecting a flash drive? That seems more serious than an addressless addressbook, although when needing an address, one might hope to find it in Addressbook, right? In Panther applications would "quit" just because it felt like it--but not the whole system. Is this "normal" now, routine?
eep
iBook G4, 14, 933 MHz, Mac OS X (10.4.9) iMac G4, 15, 800MHz, (10.1.5)

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