Finder/Leopard Freezing overnight.

This happens most often in the morning when I leave the machine on overnight to use some non peek bandwith.
When I go to check the computer in the morning it shows the time as being some point in the middle of the night. I try and start an application the beach ball starts spinning. It requires a hard start to get going again.
I have tried changing sleep settings to only sleep the hard drive and screen and unplugged all USB devices apart from the mouse overnight.
Unfortunately the problem still persists.
Here how this were set when I went to bed last night:
I had transmission running, set to begin torrents (4) during my off peak period (2am-10am). No other applications were running.
When I woke up this morning I hit the space bar to wake the screen (at about 6.40am) the time on the screen was 12.11pm. Because it had frozen before 2am no torrents had begun. As soon as I tried to use transmission or use Force Quit to restart the beachball appears and nothing is responsive.
I am forced to do a hard restart. Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks! I'll give that a go tonight.
Here's the console info from the night before last, you can see the restart at around the 7.06am mark, last log before that was 1.25:03am which is about the time displayed in finder when i woke the screen:
Jul 8 00:00:12 Macintosh newsyslog[6131]: logfile turned over
Jul 8 00:25:03 Macintosh kernel[0]: SetCryptoKey R: len 32, idx 1
Jul 8 01:25:03 Macintosh kernel[0]: SetCryptoKey R: len 32, idx 2
Jul 8 07:06:08 localhost kernel[0]: Darwin Kernel Version 9.4.0: Mon Jun 9 19:36:17 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.5.20~1/RELEASE_PPC
Jul 8 07:06:01 localhost com.apple.launchctl.System[2]:
kern.ipc.maxsockbuf: 8388608 -> 512000
Jul 8 07:06:01 localhost com.apple.launchctl.System[2]:
net.inet.tcp.sendspace: 65536 -> 131072
Jul 8 07:06:01 localhost com.apple.launchctl.System[2]:
net.inet.tcp.recvspace: 65536 -> 358400
Jul 8 07:06:01 localhost com.apple.launchctl.System[2]: fsck_hfs:
Volume is journaled. No checking performed.

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Not sure if it's related but first had Pages (Mac App Store version) crash when I tried to open a simple AppleWorks word processing document (nothing fancy in it). I then opened the WP doc in AppleWorks, opened Pages and a blank doc (portrait format). Copied all the text from the AWks doc, switched to Pages and pasted it into Pages, and saved the doc as a Word (.doc) file, on an external drive. Then save the open file in Pages as a Pages document. Quit Page, quit AppleWorks. At about that point, the Finder shows the spinning beachball, then the menubar disappears. I relaunched the Finder (said "Not responding" in the Dock), but the Finder wouldn't restart. Had to shut down. Decided to leave it alone for a while and just use my ancient PowerBook Firewire (aka Pismo).
Later, I start up my iMac again, and I get a message that the (external) disc was 'not put away correctly' (okay...). I had some queued printer files and went to print those - the first document printed, then the printer went offline. I turned it off, waited, then turned it back on. Still offline on the printer. I restarted the iMac, without other discs attached. (Side thing, the Apple Wireless keyboard seems intermittent about working, possibly the rechargeables don't last long)
I started back up, and ran Disk Utility, get the 'disc not put away' message (again..), and the Finder stalls, Apple-Option-Escape doesn't pull up the usual dialog box. Had to turn off the iMac to get out of it.
I got in a Hitachi 500GB SATA drive (had a SATA/USB 2.0 enclosure for it to go into), formatted it and had Carbon Copy Cloner back up my (230GB external) startup drive to the Hitachi (left it going overnight to get done). (By the way, my iMac does not have internet connection at home - have to haul it to local WiFi to do updates/Mac App Store downloads)
I come back to the iMac this morning, restart from the Hitachi (power was already on) and go to back it up to my Time Machine (external 1TBdrive). When I check how it's doing, I see "Indexing backup" in the TM pull-down menu. While I'm waiting, I plug in the USB cable for my printer (had turned it off, waited and turned back on again). The Time Machine icon in the menubar stops its animation/turning. When I try to click on the TM icon, I get the spinning beachball again. After that, anything else I attempt to do in Finder does not respond - nor does the Dock when I try to see about restarting the Finder.(!)
Also, the internal 230GB in the iMac died, so I have been booting up from the external 230GB (which was cloned from the internal before it croaked, and has been updated since then a couple of time (Software Update). I had installed the SMC fan control program, as I suspect this particular iMac's design was flawed and the heat buildup likely contributed to the internal disc's dying. When I start up, I frequently get an message (about the internal dead drive) that "This drive is not readable. Initialize - Ignore - Format" (close to that), and usually tell the iMac to ignore the drive (until I can get the 500GB swapped in for the dead drive).
Current drives list:
Usual startup drive - was the external 230GB (I think it's a WDC); as of today, was using the Hitachi SATA 500GB in the USB 2.0 enclosure
Time Machine backup drive - Seagate 1TB FreeAgent Pro (FireWire)
Other drives connected (at times):
OWC Neptune 160GB external, ATA/IDE (FireWire)
OWC Mercury-To-Go 120GB ATA/IDE (2.5" drive) (FireWire/USB)
So I'm not sure if the printer is causing the Finder problems (or vice versa), or if the iMac is just possessed.. :-P
And please don't tell me to go get a new Mac - don't have that kind of money available.
All reasonable help/suggestions will be appreciated
Jim

Thanks for the info about new iMacs - will save me from that mistake (Why do they have to mess with things - just to keep someone buying another Mac instead of simply fixing what was wrong with the one they already have?).
I have tried booting with the Snow Leopard install DVD (this model of iMac came with 10.4.something, so I need to run the hardware test from that to see if there's something more than the internal drive that isn't working right). Went through Disk Util.'s repair disc as well as repair permissions, and DU told me the disc 'appears to be OK' (wondered - did their legal dept. told them *not* to clearly say it was okay...?), but have had problems after that 'repair'.
Will go back and try safe boot again, and see if it helps. (Even booting up seems slower lately...)
Maybe I'll hunt down that (slightly used) MacBook Pro and just switch over totally to that...

Leopard Freezing/Crashing

Hi,
I recently bought an iMac and installed Leopard. The computer continually freezes, randomly I think, ill try to see if there is a pattern soon. I run standard prgrams: safari, itunes, adium, and thats pretty much it, nothing heavy.
To be a bit more specific, the mouse tracker still works, but the whole screen is unresponsive.
Now, I have recently installed the upgrade for the graphics card, I will find out if that helps in due course.. so although this could be fixed, I still have one other problem and I dont know if the two are related:
When i put my computer to sleep, or it voluntarily goes to sleep, sometimes it doesn't wake up. I press keys on the keyboard, move and click the mouse, and press the power button on the back of the screen. To add to the problem, i can't even hold the power button it to force a shut down, I need to take the power cable out from the Mac and put it back in.
Anyone got any ideas? I have apple care, do they deal with this? Haven't had time to see what I am entitled to... I'll go read now actually
If anyone has any solutions or has had this problem, please post so I know whether I have go unlucky or not !
Thanks!

yes i'm having the same issues with my macbook pro.... i haven't tried with my imac yet as i have yet to put lepoard on it..
I nearly had the data wiped off my external hard drive because the computer froze
i couldn't do anything with finder firefox was still working fine though???? why i don't know so i restarted the macbook and it wouldn't see my usb drive so i powered the drive off and back on again and a message came up saying somthing like disk inserted not formatted properly (with 3yrs of music work on it)so i tried again..
no joy so i unboxed my imac and pluged the drive in and it worked straight away...
mind you this is still running 10.4.10 or 11....
that was last night just had exactly the same thing happen ...
but this time i had already backed up my music on a second external drive and on dvd....
why are we having these issues is this just with people using an leopard update disc or is it everybody..
if this happens again I'm going back to tiger

Leopard Freezes on Restart

I'm having a Leopard installation problem I haven't seen discussed, so here goes.
Installation appears to go as it should (taking about an hour).
I get a screen saying installation was successful and a count-down to restart.
I click restart.
GRAY screen with Apple appears, and the little circular animated icon goes around and around for a minute or so.
Then freezes.
A two hour wait with a frozen animation produces nothing new.
I've forced a restart with the same result, several times.
Restart while holding down "c" DID get me back to the Leopard install screen, but a second attempted install failed in the same way.
I've seen a suggestion to try "archive and install". I've NOT tried that yet. Will try now and report results.
Since this is not a Blue Screen, I don't think this is the same problem others have had. I do not have Application Enhancer installed on this machine (at least not where other posts have expected it to be.)
If anyone has a fix to this I'd appreciate it. If I find one for myself I'll of course post that here as well.
This is on a MacBook Pro 15 inch, purchased new in August. 2G ram. Plenty of disk space free.
Sigh.
Charles

Thanks very much to chat2ian and Nicolas those were helpful responses.
Here is what seems to have solved my problem:
Force a shutdown from the frozen restart screen by holding down the power button.
Power back up while holding down the letter "c" to force boot from the cd/dvd drive.
Chose the option to "archive and install", rather than the default "update".
After a (lengthy) installation, the installer says it is done and ready to restart.
Click restart.
Hold breath, cross fingers, appeal to appropriate godesses.
After about 30 seconds of gray screen, solid blue screen with cursor appears.
(Think: Great-- progress is a blue screen of death. But wait!)
After a frightening pause, a color wheel appears, and hope returns!
Leopard starts, configuration help runs, and (in my case a least) 5 more packages are ultimately updated, followed by another restart.
This is also a bit of tense drama, but runs about as usual (perhaps a shade slower than Tiger.)
So far, all files and software are present, and life begins to look worth living again.
Nicolas: Sorry I didn't see your reply until after I'd started the "archive and install" run, so didn't get to see if Command-V would show me the same stopping point that you got.
chat2ian: I was within another try of adopting your approach and reverting to Tiger. I started this "simple" update at 9.45 and it is now 20.37.
The irony is I bought the MacBook Pro in August because I wasn't willing to go through another MS upgrade to Vista. I honestly thought this would go smoothly the first time. Silly me.
Thank you both for trying to help.
Charles

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