Cursor freezes completely each time with mac os x 10.6.8

Hello, mac friends,
I have a Macbook Pro with 8Gb and upgraded from 10.6.3 to 10.6.8 recently.
All was well for some but since one week, the cursor freezes when I use either Safari or Mozilla, and and basically the whole system jams.
I cannot do force quit. Unplugging my mouse (logitech) or just using the trackpad works and I simply need to do a forced close down with the
on button in the right upper corner.
I have tried a PRAM reset, a Disk Utility with repair disk permissions and disk repair, and using Disk Utility through the Installer Disk but nothing
seems to help. I have upgraded both Safari and Mozilla, but still the same issue crops up.
What is wisdom here? Downgrade from 10.6.8 to a earlier version? Upgrade to LION? or set up a new user or admin account? I have seen various
threads on the internet but never a definite answer and someone content that his/her problem with the cursor freeze was resolved.
Please let me know - I think quite a number of other mac users have the same issue.
Thank you,
Saab96

I have a similar problem with my early 2009 Macbook Pro 10.6.8 and have been working on it for several weeks. Something is cuasing my mouse (USB or Logitech Wireless) to stop functioning normally. At first I thought it only happened after the Mac was asleep but it just happened again while I was using it.
I've cleaned house as far as possible potentially offending programs including getting rid of all browsers except safari.
Repaired Disk Permissions, Veryifeid the Hard Disk which had some bad sectors after 3.5 years of use. So I replaced the drive with a Seagate 750GB drive. Did a Time Machine recovery from a point in time prior to the problem ever occuring.
Relentless searched through the Console logs each time it happens but it does not seem to point to one thing.
Crash Reporter does not even pick it up and create a report.
I ran Memtest for hours two times and can find nothing wrong with the memory.
Reset the SMC
Reset the PRAM which if I understand it correctly also resets the NVRAM?
Yesterday I did a fresh install of Snow Leopard using the Archive and Install function to create a new system wothout nuking the drive and my USer/networksettings etc.
Ran updates on the system to get it back to 10.6.8
And it happened again. I clicked on a window and the "Select" function just hung so no mater where I moved my mouse it kept selected everything. It would not close windows or perform any mouse like functions.
The command-quit function worked this time and I can always open & run the Force Quit window and shutdown. It'sl like the machine is doing everything except mouse functions.
The "crash" does seem to affect my Parallels 8 virtual machine as I am able to quit W7 and shut down parallels normally.
I have over 2GB of free RAM out of the 4GB installed
Temperature Monitors seem normal.
I'm really starting to think its hardware....
I"m going to hard wipe the drive and do a clean install of Snow Leopard next and not install any third party programs whatsoever. But before I waste any more time on this if anyone has any ideas on this I would appreciate hearing them. Apple support has been giving me ideas and veyr helpful as usual but this isn't fixed and I can't live with it.
This machine never crashed. But since the last week in August it does this constantly at least a couple time a day.
Thank you for any assistance.

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