General Crashing/freezing problem

Hi
I am having a lot of problems with my computer freezing. I have taken it to a local "specialist" who simply thought I should avoid running old applications that open in OS 9. (as sods law would have it it didn't crash once in his workshop) This hasn't made any difference. He thought it may be some electrical USB port problem and suggested removing all connections except the mouse and keyboard. I have also tried the usual reinstalling of software but it's made no difference.
It doesn't seem to crash on any one particular application, it just happens spontaneously quite often when I am moving a window to one side- first everything on the desktop freezes except the cursor and then after about 10 seconds the cursor also freezes. It's not a question of having too many applications open at once, it often freezes for example when I ONLY have safari open.
I have tried the disk utility to repair "permissions" but I get an error message saying "disk utility has lost it's connection with the disk management tool and cannot continue".???
I am currently restarting my mac about 6 times a day.
This sound familiar to anyone??
Thanks in advance
Mark

Hello Ali,
Does that mean you did an Erase & Install, or an Archive & Install?
If you did an Archive & Install, do you still have the Previous System folder, on the HD?
ANSWER:I didn't Erase & install, That would completely wipe out all my documents wouldn't it?? I don't remember the exact terminology but it must have been Archive install... The Previous System folder is there on the HD dated 11 Oct.
Have you added, removed, or manipulated any Fonts?
ANSWER:Not to my knowledge.
Do you have a backup of your system?
ANSWER:No, Should I try and drag a copy of the Previous System folder to my external HD, or are you talking about a backup of all my personal stuff?
First, have you backed up all your important files? If not, please do so right away. Concentrate on the files in your Home folder to begin with.
ANSWER:Hello Donna, I've been trying all morning to backup but as luck would have it there are many problems: My iomega external HD is not accepting lots of files saying "the titles are too long" it asks if I want to carry on transferring the other files I click OK but then rather than continuing it just stops... Tried to burn data to a CD instead but during the burning process I get an error message saying "there was an error during burning, this cd cannot be used "... I tried with two CLEAN CD's and one DVD. but I got the same messages. I have a lot of data already backed up but not a very recent one unfortunately.
Second, are you hearing any odd noises that may indicate an impending hard drive failure? Any clicking, tapping, or scratching sounds happening at about the time when the freezes are happening? Sometimes software can't detect hardware failures until it's too late.
ANSWER: Nothing really, no noises...It's always pretty much the same, it just freezes spontaneously quite often when I'm moving a window to one side- first everything on the desktop freezes except the cursor and then after about 10 seconds the cursor also freezes. It happens quite often also with those pop up messages that slide out of a window (like a letter coming through a letterbox) when-for example- you close a text window and it asks if you want to save the changes etc. It freezes quite often at that moment.
When you took it to the shop, it worked fine, right?
Did they use your keyboard & mouse, or theirs?
ANSWER:Hello Bee,
It's interesting you should ask that. I called the shop the other day and they put 2 and 2 together as you have done. yes they used a different keyboard & mouse to mine and suggested I use a different one (I was using the old keyboard & mouse from my old Mac which I prefer) Tried the new one that was packed away from my new Mac but the problems still persisted.
Ali I am now going to look into the 10.3.9 Combo Update. that you suggested in your last message.
Thanks everyone,
Mark
eMac Mac OS X (10.3.9)

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