Macbook suddenly freezes once a while after newest Snow Leopard update?!

Please help, my macbook (not the new one) just suddenly freezes once in a while, and I cant do anything at all during the 30-secondish lags. Its not just one app, its the whole computer. Please help!

Any ideas on how this problem is started, or how to prevent it
Your hard drive's directory structure can get messed up when forcing the computer to shut down. It's a good Idea to get DiskWarrior and run that periodically to rebuild the hard drive's directory. It's like a preventive maintenance.
ALso, sometimes the Disk Utility will not repair the drive because the directory is too messed up. That's when DW does it's magic.
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