Am I ready for snow leopard?

Hi Forum
For some time I have wanted to upgrade from 10.5 to 10.6. I have tried it once before but experienced problems. My MBP froze for periods of 1/2min, showed the color wheel, and sounded like working strangely at the HD. This pattern was repeated roughly every 10th minutte.
I read somwhere that it was related to the version of my HW, and later I have seen one place describing the issue as solved.
Have any of you experienced the same problem and can you confirm the bug has been solved?
My MBP:
Modelnavn: MacBook Pro 15"
Model-id: MacBookPro2,2
Processornavn: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processorhastighed: 2.33 GHz
Antal processorer: 1
Antal kerner i alt: 2
L2-buffer: 4 MB
Hukommelse: 4 GB
Bushastighed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM-version: MBP22.00A5.B07
SMC-version (system): 1.12f5
Serienummer (system): W87141BJW0H
Hardware-uuid: 00000000-0000-1000-8000-0019E33767BA

Thanks for your input Russa. Unfortunately I'm quite sure that was not the issue. The HD activity didn't sound like a regular activity - more like an error. I kept the SL for some days and things didn't change. I also found a description at a forum, stating that the error back then related to a mismatch between SL and my HW. I found no other solution than to reinstall Leopard and my programs.
It might well be that what you describe will work. I just would like to be sure - to avoid all the reinstallation

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