Apps Don't Force Quit + Restarts Hang on $6500 new Mac Pro... Unhappy

My new 8-core Mac Pro arrived 2 weeks ago. Since then I have had to Force it to Shut Down over 19 times.
Applications will often freeze and after force quitting them, they hang around in the Dock, still active, until I eventually restart the machine. Then restarting hangs on the spacey leopard background.
This is very frustrating. Especially after sinking my savings into this machine.
I have noticed that it may have something to do with the 2 G drives I have plugged into the machine. Often when one of the drives is hooked up, I get the spinning beach ball while trying to access files off of it. And when I must restart due to a frozen app in the dock, if I turn off the drives before I hit restart, the restarts will not hang.
Any thoughts on this dilemma? They would be much appreciated...

Hard to say with this little information, but I'd assume something was wrong with the machine out of the box. The two options are: hardware problem and software problem.
As a start, I would be inclined to erase the hard drive completely by restarting from the Mac OS X install disk, choosing Utilities -> Disk Utility and using that to erase. (Of course, you'll want to make sure you have a backup of all your documents first.) Then reinstall the system from scratch. Don't copy any settings over from the backup of your old system, since settings files could be corrupt.
Once you've got a squeaky clean system, if the problems persist, it could still be a problem with a specific app, but that starts to get harder to diagnose.
You could also try running Apple Hardware Test to diagnose some hardware problems:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509

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