'Beach ball' freezes continue after OS update

Hi, all-
I've begun getting 'beach-ball' freezes I can only escape by holding down the power button. My year-old MBP13 was on Snow Leopard 10.6.3 (and Safari 5.0(6553.16)) and I had one or two recently but began getting them more frequently as of yesterday. Today I upgraded to 10.6.4 and made sure I was on Flash 10,1,53,64 but it still happens (and I can make it happen on demand by going to a specific web site). After rebooting from an on-demand one, the console log shows "*launchd[1] has started up*' ; "(com.apple.ReportCrash) Falling back to default Mach exception handler. Could not find: com.apple.ReportCrash.self" ; "(com.apple.Kerberos.renew.plist[100]) exited with exception code: 1" ; "Main starting with pid 108, parent pid 79".
Other info: The cursor is a beachball symbol everywhere on the screen EXCEPT (oddly enough) on the icons in the upper-right corner of the screen. (Skype, time machine, Bluetooth, Airport, etc icons)
Also, when I press the power button, I get the prompt for rebooting or shutting down but choosing either has no effect. I must hold down the power button until the screen goes blank. Also; the web site where I can re-create the problem is www.shorelander.com (a boat-trailer manufacturer). I select "Parts Finder", then "Parts Information". After about a three second pause, the perpetual beach ball starts.
-bigaitch

The only sites that mucked up for me had bad javascripts. I've seen none that have choked on internet plug-ins. Have some examples? If disabling plugins helped, you might want to determine exactly which ones are causing the issues. These are mine (latest versions) and they're not causing any issues:
AuthorwareWebPlayer
ClickToFlash.webplugin
DirectorShockwave.plugin
DivXBrowserPlugin.plugin
DRM Plugin.bundle
Flash Player.plugin
flashplayer.xpt
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.webplugin
Google Earth Web Plug-in.plugin
iPhotoPhotocast.plugin
ipxBrowserPlugin
JavaPlugin2_NPAPI.plugin
JavaPluginCocoa.bundle
npdivx.xpt
nsIQTScriptablePlugin.xpt
Quartz Composer.webplugin
QuickTime Plugin.plugin
RealPlayer Plugin.plugin
SpeedDownload Browser Plugin.plugin

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It is a good idea to repair permissions after you download software.
every second a beachballl would pop out.
Troubleshoot the spinning beach ball

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Hello,
After the upgrade to Mac 10.6, Mail is plagued by the spinning beach ball of death. I did get the confirmation that the Mail database had been successfully rebuilt and the window looks fine for a few seconds before the program stalls. I have tried removing the Preferences and Envelope Index files before a restart without any change. Activity Monitor shows Mail eating up just shy of 100% CPU and the infamous "Not Responding" phrase.
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More microchips than sense,
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See the following threads corresponding to Snow Leopard:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10064960&#10064960
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10063772&#10063772
This was also an intermittent issue in Leopard:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9756242&#9756242
Deleting all Smart Groups in Address Book resolves the issue.
Feedback time:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
Interestingly enough, the Feedback page drop-down menu has not been updated with SL. =/
John

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I never saw the beach ball until after I installed Mountain Lion. After this started, I installed an VirusBarrier X6, which helped clean up the machine. I also ran the First Aid utility, to no avail. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Arthur, you are my new hero! There is a lot of info on the link you sent. Most of the things regarding the disk I already did ... to no avail. But ... just now I did reset the PRAM and SMC ... and no more beach balls!!! I've only been up and running for 15 minutes since the reset, but so far so good!
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