Bizarre date and time hang.. Hardware or software?

Hi all, i have this totally bizarre problem that i have never seen in my 25 years of using mac's..
Since yesterday my date and time seems to hang; it doesn't really update anymore and when i hover my mouse over i get the beach ball. Also this seems to effect the system prefs, if i start that up it sometimes hangs too.. which then effects and hangs the finder.
Last night i deleted the associated plist and cages things, zapped the pram etc, no luck with this. Also disk utility showed no problems with my drive.
So today i installed a fresh new 10.6 system which did install, but the first 2 attempts getting across the welcome&register screens gave me beachballs and complete unresponsiveness too. So now after some hard restarts i'm puzzled.. Also startup and shutdown seems slow.
As far as i can tell there is no special clock battery in these things that could cause this? So anyone any ideas? Every idea is much appreciated!
Thanks, Gerben

Welcome to Apple Discussions Gerben.
Your computer is apparently early 2008. Do you have the extended Applecare warranty? If you do you could take it to the nearest Apple-authorised service centre & get it checked out.
If not, try starting in safe mode by holding the shift key until the Apple logo appears. See whether the problem is still there. If not, it's a software problem almost certainly.
However you should also disconnect all peripherals and see whether there is still a problem. If not, then it is likely one of the peripherals is the source of the problem.
Failing this insert your original installation dvd, disconnect all peripherals and restart holding the D key. This will check hardware. If any errors are reported you might need to approach service.
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