IS it normal behavior or should I be worried??

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gphillipk

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I woke my PB up this morning (battery at 88%) and plugged in a USB 2.0 memory stick and everything stopped responding and a message appeared on the screen requesting me to restart the machine. What would be the cause of this? After restarting, everything works fine. I plugged in the stick and was able to use it.
 
That sounds like a kernel panic or in other words: your system discovered an exceptional situation and crashed. It happenes sometimes and there is no need to worry besides that all unsaved documents will be lost.
It might be helpful to run Disk Utilities Repairing Disk and Disk Permissions after such a kernel panic.
 
What version of OS X are you running? Make sure you are up to 10.3.8 if you are running Panther (OS X 10.3) or 10.2.8 if running Jaguar (Mac OS X 10.2).
 
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