Freeze after updating to OSX Snow Leopard and version 10.6.8

My iMac periodically freezes.  This doesn't seem to be related to a particular app or website.

I have been working through the list of actions and I believe I have identified an issue repairing permissions. I ran Disk Utility from the HD and it reported several issues and that they were repaired. I repeated the repair and the same thing happened. I repeated several times expecting to eventually have the utility report that no repairs were needed. Instead, it kept reporting apparently the same permissions problems and that they have been fixed.
I next tried booting off the install DVD and repeating above. Same result. How do I remedy disk permissions issues that won't stay repaired?
I will look around the forums, but wanted to report an update.
The repairs filled about six pages of a Word file; here are a few samples of what is reported:
Repairing permissions for “20 inch iMac HD”
Permissions differ on "System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Classes/dt.jar", should be lrwxr-xr-x , they are lrw-r--r-- .
Repaired "System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Classes/dt.jar".
Permissions differ on "System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Classes/jce.jar", should be lrwxr-xr-x , they are lrw-r--r-- .
Repaired "System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Classes/jce.jar".
Permissions differ on "System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Classes/jconsole.ja r", should be lrwxr-xr-x , they are lrw-r--r-- .
Repaired "System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Classes/jconsole.ja r".
Permissions differ on "System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Classes/management- agent.jar", should be lrwxr-xr-x , they are lrw-r--r-- .
<continue for six pages....>
"System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/AppleVNCServer.bundle/Contents/Sup port/LockScreenLeopard386.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/MainMenu.nib", should be drwxr-xr-x , they are -rwxr-xr-x .
Repaired "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/AppleVNCServer.bundle/Contents/Su pport/LockScreenLeopard386.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/MainMenu.nib".
Permissions repair complete

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