Finder freezes with Lion 10.7.4

I've had my macbook pro with Lion 10.7.4 for only about 4 or 5 months now and since I installed a 2 TB Seagate external HD Finder has been crashing periodically. I've been keeping an eye on the Activity Monitor when this happens and it doesn't look like there are any processes that are taking a lot of %CPU. I've already run a disk repair from the Lion recovery partition which seemed to solve the problem temporarily, but now its back. It only seems to happen when I have the external HD plugged in and Time Machine starts to run a backup.
I've been reading a lot of forum postings regarding this issue and I haven't had any luck solving it so I thought I would repost a new discussion in case someone was able to come up with a solution to this problem. Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you

Well, if you are running too many concurrent applications and, if you don't have sufficient free space on your hard drive, then this will be a regular occurrence.
Try booting into Safe Mode then restarting normally.
I would also use a utility such as Mountain Lion Cache Cleaner 7.0 to clear all user, system, and font caches to be sure there isn't a problem with a corrupted cache.
If you still cannot resolve the problem, then I suggest erasing the drive and reinstalling OS X:
Install or Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion from Scratch
If possible backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive.
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Erase the hard drive:
Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.
After DU loads select your startup volume (usually Macintosh HD) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Erase button and wait until the process has completed.
Quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion: Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion and click on the Install button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.

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If I click on an item in the Dock, nothing happens. I ran Disk Utility and Disk Warrior against all the disk drives. All came out fine, except for some problems with the 750 WD drive, which were repaired. Yet the freezing continues. It will freeze after two or three hours of idle time.
I tried turning off Time Machine. No good. Both WD drives are connected via a powered USB hub. My printer on the same hub works fine and so does the 1TB WD drive. I tried switching USB ports. I tried a different USB cable. All those things made no difference.
Yet, if my G5 is frozen and I yank the power cable from the back of the WD 750GB drive, the warning window about improperly disconnected USB drive pops up and my Mac springs back to life. I also have Disk Warrior's disk monitoring feature installed, but it finds nothing wrong with anything. I tried looking at the console, but no errors show there that relate to this disk drive issue.
I also upgraded from 10.5.2 to 10.5.3. No difference in terms of this disk drive problem.
If anyone has any suggestions on how to fix this problem, please let me know. I tried submitting a problem report on Western Digital's web site a few minutes ago, but it hangs when I click the submit button using my MacBook Pro and Safari.

A Western Digital My Book Studio may not be the best of choices for use with a PPC Mac. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but see
Western Digital “My Book” drives !! AVOID !!
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As a grad student who uses my computer for research (usually involving multiple web pages, datasets in Excel, Word notes, and sometimes statistical software packages like Stata all running at the same time) this is very very frustrating.
I'm tech-capable to a point, but I am not well-versed enough to know how to fix this on my own (or if there even IS a fix).
I was a loyal Mac enthusiast until recently, but this has got me at my wit's end. Any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated.

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Hey,
I bought my 21.5 inch i5 iMac back this June so not even two months ago and today it has froze a total of 3 times. It has never froze before since I bought it. I'll just be browsing a page (youtube, switchfoot.com, and facebook is what it has frozen on today) and it will just completely freeze. Nothing on the screen can move except my cursor. Not even the dock will move.
I installed Lion when it came out last week but it is worrying me that it has been doing this so much and only today. I only have two applications on my 500GB drive which are the Twitter app and The Sims 3. I even turned my Mac off for a bit but it did it again soon after I turned it back on. Any suggestions?
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You might suffer the same problem many have.
The sites you mentioned are all showing videos of some sort. People reported that watching videos caused a freeze for them. Also there is a ongoing issue with graphic drivers since 10.6.3 on some configurations.
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Every time I have used my MBP since I've uploaded the Lion software it freezes within minutes! I've had to restart about 6-9 times just today.
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