Leopard "Blue screen of death" - total system crash!

So my new mac crashed. Again.
Recently I've experienced that my mac freezes when I start to do some heavy work, like video-editing or Photoshop. A re-install solved the problem for around two weeks, before the same thing happend again yesterday:
During a update of Final Cut Studio, my Mac suddenly freezes, and I had to do a forced quit. After this reboot my mac got to a blue screen (after the loading-apple-screen), and nothing more.
After around 14 reboots, I decided to do a archive and re-install. This re-install took *14 HOURS*, and now it stops at the loading Apple-logo.
Tryed to verify the disc with the Disk Utility software, showed up fine. Tryed to repair the permissions - came up some errors (apparently some missing files(?), before it said that it was fixed. Finally I tryed an extended hardware test - showed up nothing wrong.
Then I got the idea that I maybe could make a 2nd partition of the harddrive, preserving the exsisting data, and install Leopard on that new one. But when I try to install Leopard on this, I get an estimated *21 hours* of time to install.
I've also tryed to boot from a Linux-bootable USB-stick I use with my Acer-PC, but it refuse to boot from that.
So I'm pretty much stuck right now. When I try to open the machine in Single User Mode, it tells me a bunch of errors, before the following lines is repeated:
disk0s2: I/O error.
0 [Level 3] [ReadUID 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [ErrType I0] [I0Type Read] [PBlkNum 373453728] [LBlkNum 1356] [FSLogMsgID 591622195] [FSogMsgOrder First]
0 [Level 3] [ReadUID 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [DevNode root_device] [MountPt > [Path (usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib] [FSLogMsgID 5916221951] [FSLogMsgOrder Last]
Could it be the harddrive, the RAM, or something completly else?
Any help is much appreciated!

Run DU and verify/repair the HD and also permissions.
Run Activity Monitor and check your Page outs which are related to RAM usage. If it is high, it indicates you are using your HD in lieu of RAM for whatever reason. It's not good and at the minimum slows things down.
You can also run a RAM check, such as Rember
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20050524014158525
Also check that your computer is not overheating.

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