Why does system go comatose?

My system (OSX 10.6.7) three times went into a comatose state. The only thing working was the mouse moving the cursor. After the first two times, the system restored itself, only to become comatose after five minutes.
After the third time, I manually powered down the system (menu-bar apple -> Shut Down did not work.
Any ideas? Could having the right button stuck cause this behavior? My system has two mice, and its possible one of right buttons was stuck. The system's been stable for over two hours now, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
Would Lion help recovery after manual power down?

The only hope of answering your question would be to examine the logs. Launch the Console application and select "system.log" from the file list. Enter "BOOT_TIME" (without the quotes) in the search box. Note the times of the log messages referring to boot times. Now clear the search box and scroll back in the log to the time of the most recent boot when you had the problem. Look for error messages in the minutes before that time. Do the same with /var/log/kernel.log.

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