Constant Mouse Freezing about ever 3 seconds

Ok, I have searched high and low for an answer. I did an SMC reset, and that worked for about 3 hours, until I shut my computer off. This seems increasingly odd to me, because it is not a problem with my mouse, because I tested it on my Apple Trackpad and a USB mouse(non-apple). If you did not quite catch that, the problem is that every 3 or so seconds, the mouse will freeze in place for about a half of a second. I am running a mac mini (mids 2011) with 2.5ghz processor and 500gb memory, with about 450gbs left. I have the AMD Readon Graphics too. I am also running Lion 1.7.5
ANy help is greatly apprecieated

If it happens again...
Open Console in Utilities & see if there are any clues or repeating messages when this happens.
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...
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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