Apps are crashing and Eject key logs me out

This has been happening for about a week now:
Native OS X apps like Safari, Mail and iTunes will repeatedly crash and won't re-open. They will open for just a second or two, then crash again. Restarting the computer fixes the problem, but then a day or so later it will start happening again.
Also, and not sure if it's related, when I press the Eject key the computer immediately takes me to the login screen (and quits all open applications, no chance to save anything). When I'm on the login screen if I hit the Eject key again it flashes to a blue screen, then the login screen appears again.
This computer was replaced about 4 months ago because the old one was having really weird problems as well (not the same problems). Both are Mac Pros and both have a RAID card installed.
Any ideas?

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