Can't put my finger on what's wrong with iMac

From the beginning:
My wife asked me to copy a couple scratched dvd-rs the other night. The superdrive couldn't read one, but the other showed up on the desktop. I tried to copy it and got an error that the iMac couldn't copy the disc. Thinking it might just be a difficult disc to read, I tried again. This time, the iMac seemed to lock up -- the superdrive revved up, then revved down s-l-o-w-l-y until it stopped. The cursor was ineffective, and I had to hard reboot.
Upon reboot, not all my external drive images mounted. I have three external drives, one fore iTunes, one for Pro Tools, and one for back up. All three showed up, but only two of the three partitions of the backup mounted. I entirely unplugged the iMac and all peripherals, reset the PRAM, and ran the quick Apple Hardware Test. It showed nothing wrong, so I repaired permissions on all the disks and rebooted. Still only two of the three partititions on the backup mounted, so I called LaCie. They suspected a bad drive and sent out a replacement for my backup.
When the backup arrived, I hooked only that drive up to the iMac, partitioned it, and proceeded to back up my iMac internal drive to its destination partition using SuperDuper. All seemed to be going well yesterday morning when I left for work, so I thought the problem was solved. But when I got home, I got an error in SuperDuper (i took a screen shot if details are necessary) that there was an error copying the drive -- an error 5, input/output error. I stopped SuperDuper and tried again, and it picked up where it left off for a half hour, then gave me a similar error.
I unplugged all drives and ran the extended Apple Hardware Test. It was still running when I went to bed, but I woke to a message that there are no problems detected.
Any ideas what's going on here? I had been noticing some pinwheeling in the past several months, but ONLY when I opened Mail and my PoP account took a while to load messages. Do I have a bad drive? Bad logic board? Then why didn't the Hardware Test show it? Or, do I just need to buy something like DiskWarrior to rebuild my main directory?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

I don't find AHT very trustworthy... unless it actually finds a problem, & it sure seems like some hardware problem.
Way too many console loggings I think.
One way to test is to Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, Test for problem in Safe Mode & see if we still get thise listings in Console...
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive
Reboot, test again.
If it only does it in Regular Boot, then it could be some hardware problem like Video card, (Quartz is turned off in Safe Mode), or Airport, or some USB or Firewire device, or 3rd party add-on, Check System Preferences>Accounts>Login Items window to see if it or something relevant is listed.
Check the System Preferences>Other Row, for 3rd party Pref Panes.
Also look in these if they exist, some are invisible...
/private/var/run/StartupItems
/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons
/Library/LaunchDaemons

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