General Weirdness going on in 10.4.7 - Any ideas?

I've got all sorts of weird little problems going on right now.
Basically it all adds up to me having to log out of my machine or shutdown every few days.
I have no idea what's going on.
Here's an excerpt from my console log...
2006-09-08 12:46:16.289 System Preferences[5672] hardwareCheckThread got an exception name:NSInternalInconsistencyException reason:couldn't fork
2006-09-08 12:46:32.531 System Preferences[5672] * NSThread: ignoring exception 'couldn't fork' that raised during delayed perform of target 0x1573dd00 and selector '_initiateDMConnection'
Disk Utility started.
2006-09-08 12:47:07.730 Disk Utility[5676] couldn't fork
2006-09-08 12:47:35.918 Disk Utility[5676] couldn't fork
When I started up Disk Utility - no window came up...
Backup fails too - and then is fixed by a logout/restart - Here's it's logs...
2006-09-08 12:42:30.898 Backup[5664] unable to gzip event log /Users/guentherm/Library/Logs/Backup/Events/BD265DE3-562D-4B2C-B4E8-11075E7236C B/EA7D3E1B-12F1-445E-85BB-7D32CB9CC00D.log
2006-09-08 12:53:46.780 Backup[5691] gzip failed: exception caught : couldn't fork
2006-09-08 12:53:46.799 Backup[5691] unable to gzip event log /Users/guentherm/Library/Logs/Backup/Events/BD265DE3-562D-4B2C-B4E8-11075E7236C B/00D85575-E900-429C-9688-D2E8A8003F05.log
When I try to empty my trash I get an error dialog satting "The operation cannot be completed because you do not have sufficient privileges for some of the items."
Again - once I log off or restart the problem goes away - and returns after a few days.
If I'm not running Activity Monitor already and I try to start it up I get an error box saying that there are too many processes or it just bombs out completely...like it did just now... Here's what the console log says...
2006-09-08 13:00:18.342 Console[5667] * NSRunLoop ignoring exception 'couldn't fork' that raised during posting of delayed perform with target 34dc90 and selector 'reload'
2006-09-08 13:00:18.762 Console[5667] Exception raised during posting of notification. Ignored. exception: couldn't fork
2006-09-08 13:00:19.771 Console[5667] Exception raised during posting of notification. Ignored. exception: couldn't fork
2006-09-08 13:00:19.981 Console[5667] * NSRunLoop ignoring exception 'couldn't fork' that raised during posting of delayed perform with target 34dc90 and selector 'reload'
2006-09-08 13:00:20.762 Console[5667] Exception raised during posting of notification. Ignored. exception: couldn't fork
The biggest commonality I see in all this is the error 'couldn't fork'. All of this has been going on for about a couple of months now and continued doing so even after I did a system wipe a restore.
All I use this laptop for is WoW, e-mail, writing papers, web browsing and iTunes. Other than WoW (for which I admitedly need to buy more RAM) there's nothing super taxing going on with the system.

Never got an answer on this - problem just went away and didn't re-occur

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