3rd Gen Black Macbook Freezing...

Hey all,
I finally got my brand new black macbook and love it! The only problem is that I've been having it freeze up a lot. It seems to be in conjunction with internet programs because it has only happened with Firefox (only a couple times) and everytime with any Torrent client. I've tried Transmission, Azureus, Bit Torrent, Tomato. What usually happens is that everything is fine and then out of no where the pinwheel shows up and I can either force quit but still have the program registered in the dock and no other program will open, or not even be able to force quit causing me to need to Command-Ctrl-Power for a forced restart (even this hasn't worked everytime). My macbook is brand new and I've done the hardware tests that came with the OS X and also the one that came with APP. Any help is greatly appreciated because I want this to work better than a windows comp, but so far no luck!
3rd Gen Macbook 2.16 GHz 1GB 120GB HDD Mac OS X (10.4.9)

aybe there is a problem wit ur logic board, u should contact apple

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