Gah! very strange problem, at the worst possible time. i repeat, gah!

ok, i've had my powerbook for just over a year i think and apart from it eating a dvd when i first had it, its been very reliable, until a couple of months ago when after being on for a few hours the colourful spinny (egg timer alternative thing) would appear for seemingly no reason, and wouldn't dissapear and let me carry on with my work until the laptop was lifted into the air, then when i put it back down it would all start again. at the time i was working in photoshop with 150mb plus size files so i said to myself its probably just too much for the computer to handle for more than a few hours.
irritating but i accepted it and anyway the problem soon went away, until now. this time i can be just browsing the internet or searching for files so its definitely not a problem with the machine lacking power. this problem is made all the more horrifying by the fact that i have a big deadline (my first post graduate job) in under a month and i can do no work for more than half an hour.
i'm praying someone here will say its the battery, or some faulty RAM, them being on the bottonm of the laptop n'all, and that this is a common problem, i doubt it, but i really don't have time to send it for repairs.
thanks in hopeful though pessimistic advance folks

Have file permissions ever been repaired from Disk Utility on this machine? I had an issue where I got the spinning beachball every time I booted my computer and this was fixed by repairing permissions.
Going along with the idea that this could be related to the SMS, imagine there's a piece of code that executes at some time that supports the SMS. Then imagine that if you trigger the SMS, the code stops trying to execute and something else runs instead. Now imagine that the permissions on the first file are set incorrectly.
I would try repairing permissions to see if that makes any difference. Any time you get some weird sort of quirky behavior like this, it's a good idea to open disk utility and check the integrity of your drive and also rebuild file permissions on the system volume.

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