2009 15" MacBook Pro is sluggish and sometime reboots in the middle of work

Hey everybody.
Just got my repaired (liquid on keyboard ) 15" MacBook Pro back from the Apple Store a few weeks ago. I haven't upgraded anything since, but now the screen frequently gives me the "rainbow beachball" icon and everything stops for several minutes. On three occasions (including moments ago!), the laptop simply rebooted. Thankfully, I had just done a command-S to save my work in progress.
Two days ago I rebooted from a CD and ran Disk Utility which DID find some errors and declared them fixed. After some rainbow beachballs last night, I ran Disk Utility again from the hard drive and it did find some permissions that needed to be repaired. With this latest crash, I felt that I should reach out for other ideas.
Any thoughts why I'm having these problems?

Call the Apple Store that repaired it. You need to advise them that you are having "issues."

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              4 GB RAM
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              Apple Inc. iPhone
              Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
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