Blue Screen on Reboot + wake from sleep Problems and much much more!

I'm having major problems with my Mac here in the last couple of days and I'm completely out of ideas on how to fix it. Please help!!!! Here's what's going on...
The hard drive on my previous mac burnt out on Friday...so I grabbed one of the towers from another desk. I loaded OSX on it...but right away I was having problems with it. It started crashing and not coming up like it was supposed to...so I surfed around the forums for a while and decided that I just needed to do a clean install because when I checked the memory...it was almost completely full (only about 10Mb remaining out of a 40Gb HD).
At first...the clean install was really working great. Then it had some problems waking up once it went to sleep. I ran updates, zapped the PRAM, changed the internal battery and adjusted the power settings to that it is never supposed to sleep. Then it was all working fine for a few minutes.
I'm a graphic designer so I need all sorts of graphics/font software. So I loaded Extensis Suitcase X1, and Quark with no problems. Then when i attempted to load Adobe CS2...it popped up with the "Please reboot your machine" error right in the middle of it. Now, I can only get the machine to reboot in safe mode...and it freezes up again if it goes to sleep. Upon a reboot it goes to a blue screen with the cursor...but I can not do anything. I can load from the install disk and have run the Disk Utility a few times. I verified the disk and that was ok. When I ran the Verify Permissions, it had thousands and thousands of bad permissions. I ran the fix and now the computer says that they are all fine. I'm totally out of ideas...and I have jobs that need to go to press today that are waiting for me to get this computer going again. Please help!!!!
Thanks!
Eric

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I don't know at this point if you have time to reload the hard drive from scratch, but that may be what you have to do. The permissions storm was caused by the Quark installer. It's a fairly well known bug in version 6.x. What you need to do when installing it is NOT let it install to the Applications folder. Instead, choose the desktop. After the install is complete, then move the Quark folder to the Applications folder. Any other updates (such as 6 to 6.5) can be done there, just not the initial install.

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