Apple menu apple turns green on hang?

My Mac has become incredibly unstable lately. I can't seem to go a full day without requiring a hard shutdown. An application will hang (iTunes, Safari, Mail, anything) and while I still retain cursor control, all I get is a spinning beach ball. The Force Quit window will not even come up. My only options are hard shutdown via power button, or SSH into the iMac and shutdown via CLI.
During this time, I noticed that the apple in the Apple Menu turns green, at least some of the time. Has anyone else experienced this?

actually today i had not a green but yellow apple appear in a system that seemed to be hanging and this is why i've been reading discussions today.
i had let the battery run down overnight to calibrate. while i wrote down what happened i'm not sure i have all this in the proper order but the battery indicated it was on reserve power (i THINK i had already attached the power cord as i assumed the computer was totally asleep....no sleep light pulsing...
i am confused as to the steps i took and what happened (despite my notes immediately thereafter) but basically these things happened: i had to restart the computer and when i did the first gray screen instead of showing a wheel had a horizontal bar with smaller bars moving across left to right (as if loading) then a blue screen briefly and then my desktop and on this desktop the apple icon was YELLOW....i couldn't get the airport to engage and went over to the apple to restart the computer at which point a transparent box appeared in the area of the apple icon and in it were small black marks that i associate with computer language...or whatever). i couldn't get the menu to appear below the apple icon but was able to bring up the dialogue box by using the apple, option and escape keys but instead of force quit as an option only relaunch was offered but that would not work and in fact the transparent box that had been at the apple icon now was over this dialogue box. i believe at this point i shut the whole system off with the power key and waited a minute or few, came back and started up again and now everything went as usual on start up including the return of the black apple that 10.5.2 seems to have. i believe i also saw a blue apple in there briefly at some point or maybe it was green but another than the yellow but it more flashed than stayed.
so not quite what you had but something mysterious in any case just so you know you are not totally alone. if anyone has any idea as to what this yellow apple is about and what went wrong on this calibration journey i'd love to hear....also as to what the other oddities are about....the transparent code box breaking through over the desktop image!! that's scarey!!!

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