Freezing after 10.7.5 update

I've got a Mid 2010 Macbook Pro 17 inch with 8GB of RAM and a 512G SSD.  Was running like a champ.  However, when I updated to 10.7.5, I've had repeated issues with apps freezing.  At first, it was only happening with Eclipse, which seemed to be resolved when I updated Eclipse.  However, about once a day, when I'm working, some app (it's happened with Dreamweaver, TextWrangler, and Firefox) will suddenly start the spinning cursor.  Mouse moves fine and I can seemingly switch apps.  However, if I go to the system menu (like to do a rebloot or force quit) I get the spinning cursor on all apps and it doesn't change until I power down and up.
Is this a known issue?  Is there a fix for this?
Any help appreciated.  Thanks!

Seeing this problem too. At first I thought it was one of my scanners, but I've removed all of those and the problem persists.
For me though, it typically works on launch. Often I'll launch, remote control a client, then as soon as I end the session, the main browser window will be frozen. Or if I launch ARD, and let it just sit, it will typically freeze within 5-10 minutes.
A full reinstall is kind of out of the question. I have so many stored templates, rebuilding all of that would be daunting. I'll probably just have to struggle by until 3.5.2.
Update: I see there's a Presets folder down in ~/Application Support/Remote Desktop/. Going to try backing up and restoring that after a reinstall. Crossing fingers...

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