Beachball again and again, force quit doesnt work

Hi there,
since this rubbish mountain cat (OS X 10.8.2) is on my Macbook Pro 13" mid 2009 Model (2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3) i got to shutdown/reboot it by the power button several times a week.
I get the beachball spinning over and over mostly in safari but also in itunes and other applications, then i am waiting for up to ten minutes each until i decide to just hold the power button for a forced shutdown.
Before Mountain Lion, everything was fine, never got any issues at all with two macbooks i own since Mac OS Tiger.
I used Disk Utility and Onyx to check the harddisk, did check and repair the Disk Permissions several times, alway sucessfully.
I deleted the two ".plist" which were mentioned in another post here and in other forums.
I dont and never did use 1Password.
Today i had the issue that i clicked to play a preview of a movie in the iTunes store, beachball came up, keystroke "command+alt/option+esc" for force quit didnt work, going to the force quit menu by clicking on the apple in the upper left corner did neither work as nothing in the list by clicking on the apple responded.
Then i tried to open terminal by invoking launchbar which also got frozen, after that i tried to open finder to get access to the terminal, but eventually the finder also got frozen. Six minutes later, beachball still spinning i had to hit the power button yet again.
Does someone has a clue how i could fix this behaviour?

@srourslaw
When i get the beachball then i cant close the application.
Just now, using safari, on a link and the beachball came up for no reason.
Alt/option+command+esc doesnt open the force quit menu.
First i could click the apple symbol, however when clicking there on "force quit"
nothing happened, no force quit menu showed up.
After all i wanted to quit the text app which was open, when i clicked on the text
application icon in the dock, it didnt react.
When i finally just tried to open the mail application from the dock, even the dock and
everything else got frozen and the fan of my macbook starts spinning really loud.
Now all i can do is moving the spinning beachball around the screen, everything else is frozen.
Only option left is shutting down the macbook by pressing the power button for 5 seconds :(

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