Apps icon bouncing on dock, but not starting

I have Macbook Pro (Mid 2010) with 256 GB with Agility 3 SSD. Additional 500 GB HDD in the optical drive bay and running Mountain Lion GM (and final version).
My computer is running 7/24 and I dont lid the screen. It sleeps every night (with lock screen). Since last 10 days, native apple application not working (safari, activity monitor etc.) when system waking up from sleep (typing password and hitting the enter).
icons are keeps bouncing, but not working. Some third party application is running but after a while, they and Finder stops working. System must be switched off by power button.
After the reboot, everytings goes well. All applications are working.
I have verify and repair disk permission via Disk Utility from Utilities and in the recovery tool. But doesnt effect. Next morning same problem.
Re-installed Mountain Lion and restore from Time Machine. After two days same problem occours again.
Need a solution
Thank you

I have this same exact problem with my iMac. It just started happening this week I notice. If I power down the machine sometimes it hangs on shutdown which forces me to kill the power and when I power the machine back up all is fine for a while. If I try to launch any native Apple app llike Safari or Disk Utility all I receive is a bouncing icon in the dock. It never starts, so I have to kill it. If I use FireFox it start without a hitch. I am running 10.8.2, so something is worng here. I have not added any new software that I didn't already have.

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> On 29 Apr 2006 in macromedia.dreamweaver, wrote:
>
>
>>html Validation icon shows in IE but not in Mozilla
>>
>>Hi, All,
>>
>>I use DWMX 2004
>>
>>I placed the hmtl validation icon at the bottom of a
template so
>>that each page could be conveniently validated.
>>
>>The icon is showing all right, both locally and
online, in IE, but
>>it is not showing in Mozilla.
>>
>>What can I do to fix this?
>>
>>www.tudo.co.uk/testing/rishton/shell/contents/contact/contact.html
>>
>>The icon should appear underneath the up-arrow at the
bottom of the
>>page.
>>
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convenience:
>>
http://www.tudo.co.uk/testing/rishton/templates/rishton_template.html
>
>
> I don't know about Mozilla, but it's showing here in
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>
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>
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