Applications freezing and Macbook won't shut down

I have a 15" MBP, i7 2.66 GHz, 8 GB RAM, and a 500 GB SSD. It has been an awesome machine until about a month ago. It started randomly freezing with different applications running. I would have to force quit the app, then when I tried to shut down or reboot, it would freeze at the gray screen with the spiinning circle. I did some research and thought it might be the SSD, which was somewhat new when this started happening, so I sent it back and got a new one. I did a fresh install of Lion and all my apps and got the same results.
I wiped and reloaded again, same results! Took it to our local certified Mac repair facility and the guy said he ran hard drive diagnostics, found nothing, and was able to surf the web with no trouble. Awesome tech!
I wiped and reloaded again, only this time with Leopard. Same results! I took out the ram and swapped slots.
I am at my wits end and am very frustrated. I didn't spend close to $2k for a machine to surf the web! I need my machine to work so any help would be fantastic!

Hello omni:
You might try running repair disk from your software install DVD.
Barry

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