500gb Seagate Momentus installed, constant beachball/freezing!

i recently installed a 500gb seagate momentus 5400 rpm hd into my macbook aluminum. i installed OSX and the installs went smoothly. for some reason my macbook will constantly freeze now for no reason at all. i would randomly get the spinning beachball and programs will begin to crash one by one. i usually always have firefox and adium open so i'm not sure if its one of these programs causing it, or possibly a bad OS install.
is it possible it's my hard drive? once the beachball freezes all the programs, i can still slide the trackpad and see all programs opened i just can't do anything in any of them.
i've already repaired disk and disk permissions with install dvd. i've also tracked it with activity monitor and there is nothing abnormal. can anyone help with this? thanks.

I did return it. I decided it would take as much time to reinstall everything, since I had already wiped the hard drive to return to the store, and I was sooooo tired of troubleshooting after a month of problems. (I was also on my last day of their 30 day return policy.)
I swapped it out for a WD hard drive of the same size, reloaded everything yesterday, and have had no problems at all. Hope disabling the SMS continues to work for you!
@Mrfantastic, when I was researching this I saw a lot of people commenting on the 7200 having issues with it beeping and freezing--although it sounds like the freeze issue the 7200 has is different. Mine would FREEZE. Couldn't force quit, and it would freeze up all the other applications. My only option was to a hard reboot. This would happen 1-2 times an hour. The people with complaints about the 7200 are saying it beeps and then freezes for 10-30 seconds and then starts working again...

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