My Intel 20" iMac just crashed - curious as to WHY?!

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My iMac (20" Intel C2D) just crashed...

Here is the 'panic.log' file contents:

Code:
Thu Feb  8 16:14:35 2007
panic(cpu 1 caller 0x001A3135): Unresolved kernel trap (CPU 1, Type 14=page fault), registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x13fabcfc, CR3: 0x00dc6000, CR4: 0x000006e0
EAX: 0x0291db00, EBX: 0x0291db00, ECX: 0x00000001, EDX: 0x241fd038
CR2: 0x13fabcfc, EBP: 0x13fcbf78, ESI: 0x13fabcfc, EDI: 0x005636a6
EFL: 0x00010206, EIP: 0x005636cb, CS:  0x00000008, DS:  0x02f90010

Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack) 
0x13fcbd68 : 0x128d1f (0x3c9540 0x13fcbd8c 0x131df4 0x0) 
0x13fcbda8 : 0x1a3135 (0x3cf1f4 0x1 0xe 0x3cea24) 
0x13fcbeb8 : 0x19a8d4 (0x13fcbed0 0x2c5a1c0 0x2c5a1c4 0x2f9a68c) 
0x13fcbf78 : 0x13d7d2 (0x291db00 0x13fabcfc 0x0 0xbfff75c0) 
0x13fcbfc8 : 0x19a74c (0x0 0x0 0x19d0b5 0x45bee0) Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0x0

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.8.1: Mon Sep 25 19:42:00 PDT 2006; root:xnu-792.13.8.obj~1/RELEASE_I386


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Is this a common problem?. This is the ONLY time this has happened?. To add to this, last night my mains lead accidentally got tugged out of the back of iMac whilst it was running, but upon rebooting, I did a disk verify/perm repair.

ODD!!
 
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It's a computer. It will crash sometimes/eventually.
 
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This is evident. However, I was simply curious as to WHY... if anyone can throw any light on this, I'd sure be grateful, although this is not urgent.

Thankyou.
 
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Surfwax was pretty much dead on. Computers will crash and there isn't always a concrete answer as to why a computer crashes. The log file you posted won't help the users here and really won't help most users period.
The reasons are almost infinite.
You may find the following articles enlightening, but again there really is no way to find out the entire reason behind every crash:

What's a "kernel panic"? (Mac OS X)

Isolating issues in OS X
 

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