Apps freeze and wont restart w/o a hard reboot

Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac7,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Here is the problem:
I close an app like Dreamweaver or Excel
The app stays in the dock as if it is still running (with the light on)
Doesn't show in the activity monitor but show up in ps aux with a pid
I have run sudo kill -9 <PID> and nothing happens
I have logged on and back in to my account and nothing happens
And the app wont start back up.
The only way to fix it is to reboot.
And sometime i have to power cycle because it wont respond to the restart command.
Anyone else having this issue and more important is there a fix?
Jason

I guess Leopard's "full conformance with Unix" makes file permissions so much more important that previous versions of MacOSX. It's a housekeeping and security requirement that has existed on servers for years.
Software developers, including Microsoft, are still getting used to having to consider this during installation and upgrades. Existing programs that ran well under Tiger may still work on Leopard when the permissions are repaired, but a lot of people that upgrade from Tiger have probably brought files into Leopard that were not repaired before the upgrade and blame the upgrade itself.
Repairing Permissions takes a lot longer to do than it does with Tiger. Some say it's because Disk Utility is working harder to do more repairs.
Still, it's not the only reason there are problems, it's just the first thing I check... and it's Free and never seems to cause any new problems to "appear".

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