Slows down, hangs then fails to restart - Hardware or software ?

Hello everyone.
This has happened a couple of times in the last week. I'll be working away and applications suddenly start hanging for long periods of time. It might take up to 5 minutes to get a menu to pop down for example. All applications start mis-behaving and if I try to get activity monitor or a terminal up, they just bounce up and down on the dock for a while then stop. Eventually they may start or not. During most of this I have the bouncing ball of death going on. Yet I can still drag windows around the screen, switch between the and they refresh correctly. Yet they won't minimise, maximise, or respond in any other way.
Mostly I end up having to hard reboot to get things working again. Then a while later it may start to miss-behave again. It's also come back from sleep in a totally frozen state which won't respond to anything.
The other night though, after a reboot from frozen system it then efused to start. I got a grey screen and nothing for about 4 or 5 boots in a row until I gave up and inserted the install disk.
Both premissions repair and disk repair reported no problems. I rebooted and everythings been fine.
So I'm wondering if I have an hardware issue or a software issue. What do you guys think ? Thsi is my first Mac so I don't have any experience to go on.
MacBook Pro (2 months old) Leopard 10.5.2.
Thanks
Derek

What you are describing is definitely not normal, but it could represent any number of problems. My first suspicion is a bad hard drive, after you ran Disk Utility from the startup disk, have the problems reappeared?

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