Connecting any speakers causes freeze

Bought one of the new (early-2009) 24" iMacs for work, 1TB HDD with Leopard 10.5.6 and Final Cut Express pre-installed. I connected a set of JBL speakers to it. Multiple programs (Itunes, IDVD, Safari) have difficulty loading. Once I disconnect the speakers, no issue at all. The speakers have their own power supply...I thought it was bizzare. Tried another set of speakers, same problem. Thoughts?

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I know, a bunch of questions, but Windows machines are a bit harder to figure out when they have the types of problems you are seeing.

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10/8/14 7:38:06.415 AM SyncServer[2210]: [0x7fa96b506650] |SQLite|Error| Detected out-of-space situation: 0 (Undefined error: 0). 197332201472 bytes free in admin.
10/8/14 7:38:06.417 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[173]: (com.apple.syncservices.SyncServer[2210]) Exited with code: 1
10/8/14 7:38:07.058 AM iCalExternalSync[2161]: [0x7fd62150bac0] |Mingler|Error| failed to connect to the server: NSInvalidReceivePortException connection went invalid while waiting for a reply because a mach port died
10/8/14 7:38:07.308 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[173]: (com.apple.syncservices.SyncServer) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
10/8/14 7:38:15.626 AM iTunes[2204]: Entered:_AMMuxedVersion2DeviceConnected, mux-device:2
10/8/14 7:38:15.627 AM iTunes[2204]: Failed to create replacement string
**repeat previous line 33 more times**
10/8/14 7:38:15.636 AM iTunes[2204]: tid:26c0b - unable to query device capabilities
10/8/14 7:38:15.636 AM iTunes[2204]: Failed to create replacement string
**repeat previous line 83 more times**
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10/8/14 7:38:17.337 AM SyncServer[2214]: [0x7f9dfbd06750] |SQLite|Error| Detected out-of-space situation: 0 (Undefined error: 0). 197332180992 bytes free in admin.
10/8/14 7:38:17.339 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[173]: (com.apple.syncservices.SyncServer[2214]) Exited with code: 1
10/8/14 7:38:17.574 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[173]: (com.apple.syncservices.SyncServer) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
10/8/14 7:38:17.854 AM iCalExternalSync[2161]: [0x7fd62150bac0] |Mingler|Error| failed to connect to the server: NSInvalidReceivePortException connection went invalid while waiting for a reply because a mach port died
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10/8/14 7:38:18.457 AM com.apple.SecurityServer[14]: Session 100043 destroyed
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