10.5.5 hangs with the beachball

I have a macbook (dual core 2) and early intel iMac (dual core) 2006. Both have pretty much same setup and now have 10.5.5. My iMac started exhibiting the "beachball of death" freezes more and more in last few days. It started in iTunes when watching videos and "spread" over a couple days to most applications even finder would "freeze" for 20-30 seconds.
The main difference between the two is that a hard drive die on this iMac (the old 250 WD) I had replaced it with 500 GB just before this started. I had been running the iMac for two days before I put the new 500GB on an external 300GB HD that I had restored my last backups of time machine (from a 1 terabyte time capsule) for two days.
I have followed recommendation on this area of discussions to fix permissions and repair files. No files seemed to be repaired but there was a small collection of permissions out of order. That did not seem at first to fix things. I also rebooted into install DVD and fixed more permissions and two more were found. That seemed to work for a few hours. Also cleared Safari and such caches.
But then things started a bit (but pretty low level so far but they are back to a lower extent and this is not normal). I also read about similar problems and suggestion my new HD might be culprit or that my memory might have some issue (we removed it while we did HD replacement). So I ran Apple Hardware Test in extended mode - pasted with flying colors. I also used the Remeber program to test out the ram with overnight loops. Memory tested fine.
So not sure what is wrong but clearly it is a software issue. I am now suspicious of iTunes 8 a bit because that is where this is appearing again first (like it did before it spread to other apps and finder) While fixing all the file permissions seemed to have calmed it down alot it is back and first appeared in iTunes (so far). Symptoms in iTunes 8 consist of following:
1) On reboot and startup the rest of loading things is paused as iTunes takes a long beachball pause with it first starting and syncing my 32GB attached iPod touch and then my 16GB 3G iphone (the former seems to be one with long pause because it is set to start the iTunes and such). I have since had it not start with touch attached to avoid this annoyance at startup and do a manual sync when I want to do things.
2) When watching a tv show as I get in last 10 minutes I am starting to get again (they had spread throughout in earlier pre permission fix problems) 20-30 second pauses of my playing and then the video skips the 20-30 seconds ahead when it continues.
So iTunes might be the prime culprit in my current thinking although it was weird that this stuff the first time had spread to all apps and finder (now subdued by my permisions fixing it would appear). But it is interesting after just one video of an hour my iTunes is starting with the same symptoms that seemed to start this. So far it has not (over night at leas) spread again to other apps and such. Maybe this is two issues and I fixed the later but I wonder an time will tell.....
Any ideas out there?
Thanks
Russ Jacobson

Ok, new day new problems.
It looks like it's something serious. The system is completely unusable atm. Whenever it runs everything seems to work fine, but it can simply hang at any moment regardless of what I'm doing. It usually doesn't stay up for more then 5 minutes.
I've tried a few more things in the mean time. Installing the combo update didn't solve it. I've completely removed everything related to iTunes using the Apple instructions, but it didn't help any.
I've basically ruled out it being usb related as I previously suspected, because i'm running the system now with just my bluetooth mouse, no usb device of any kind attached, including a keyboard, and it still hangs just as frequently.
I also created a new user and tried the system under that account, but the results are the same.
I've noticed a new symptom now, and it's quite worrysome. Whenever the system goes into it's unresponsive state, I hear the harddrive spin down. Then after a while it will sometimes spin up again, but it will only be for a short time and it will sometimes allow an application to very shortly make a bit of progress, but then the HD spins down again. At some point it simply won't spin up anymore, forcing a reboot. Sometimes, this behaviour can keep going for quite a while, with the HD constantly spinning up and down and applications constantly being unresponsive because of it. This however, is not something that seemed to be occuring yesterday, at least not in such an extreme way.
I understand the unresponsive state a bit better now too. Basically, applications function, but whenever you ask it to do anything, it will completely stall because it seems to need to access the HD. This allows some animations to continue, for example the dock, but whenever I try to start an application, it will stall.
I think I'm going to try a archive-and-install and upgrade to 10.5.4, just to see if it helps, but at this point I suspect a more serious problem.
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