a new kind of crash

[David Crump]

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The one you attached isn't particularly hard to decipher. It's telling
you that the com.apple.driver.ApplePMU preference file is corrupted.
Locate the file and trash it.
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I've done a search for that file, or a reasonable facsimile and there 
doesn't seem to be such a file on my iBook.
So far my iBook is working better, but I did have another kernel panic 
last night.  Can't figure this one out.  I'm going to do the repair 
permissions again.  Thanks again for everyone who is helping me out.
Dave.