Having a real problem with this machine.

I've had this machine since May and for the most part it's been a good machine.
But lately I can't get a thing done. I've been getting Kernel Panics, constant freezes and a few times at start up, a lock up with code running from the left side of the screen across my desktop pic.
While working in Photoshop I can expect to lose my work to a random freeze.
Evidently surfing doesn't give me grief, but I have to work and I can't get a thing done without this trouble. QuickTime causes me trouble randomly also.
It seems expecting any kind of performance from this thing is giving it a hard time.
I leave the machine on 24/7 and today when I came home, it was off, leading me to believe that after a while of locking up for no reason it shut itself down.
I've done the Disk Repair, the extended Hardware test, with everything passing, created a new user and new preferences (have not brought fonts over to new user) and am getting no relief.
I have a WD Raptor as my start-up and the stock 250 as slave for data.
Running 10.4.3, 2.5 GB of Ramjet RAM.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks.
-Vincent

Hey Brett,
Yeah I'm running QT 7.0.3... but would this cause me the grief I'm experiencing even when not running it?
I've reseated the memory, dusted things off while I was in there and I'm still experiencing frequent Kernel Panics and lock-ups.
Is there any other tasks I can perform beyond what I've already done that might make it clearer whether this is software or hardware?
Thanks.
-Vincent

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Please forgive me if my questions seem inexperienced. I am
just learning how to incorporate server side includes into a new
site I'm working on and am having some real problems getting things
to work properly...
I have been reading everything I can find on SSI's, and have
finally got everything to work properly on my local system,
however, now, I'm having issues after uploading the files to my
server (IX Web Hosting).
According to this document (“How to incorporate
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Text
“Highlight all the text displayed in black and delete it.
The HTML inspector should contain only the information in red. It
is especially important NOT to have <html>, <head>
or<body> tags in the SSI, because this will cause the HTML on
the page to become invalid once the SSI is inserted.”
Text
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tags and saved the file.
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HTTP/1.1 404 Object Not Found Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0 Date:
Sat, 05 May 2007 19:42:48 GMT X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Connection:
close Content-Type: text/html
404 Object Not Found
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"Myrrhlin225" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:[email protected]...
> Please forgive me if my questions seem inexperienced. I
am just learning
> how
> to incorporate server side includes into a new site I'm
working on and am
> having some real problems getting things to work
properly...
>
> I have been reading everything I can find on SSI's, and
have finally got
> everything to work properly on my local system, however,
now, I'm having
> issues
> after uploading the files to my server (IX Web Hosting).
>
> According to this document (?How to incorporate
Server-Side Includes into
> an
> HTML page ?) from the Adobe Knowledgebase, step number 4
says to?
>
>
Text
?Highlight all the text displayed in black and delete it.
> The
> HTML inspector should contain only the information in
red. It is
> especially
> important NOT to have <html>, <head>
or<body> tags in the SSI, because
> this
> will cause the HTML on the page to become invalid once
the SSI is
> inserted.?
Text
>
> Well, I tried that, but the code just looks exactly as
it does in the code
> viewing pane. No RED characters anywhere! So I just
deleted all the
> <html>,
> <head>, and <body> tags and saved the file.
>
> Now, when I insert the SSI into a new html file (which I
saved as .shtml
> because that?s what my web hosting provider requires)
everything looks
> great on
> my local system, but when I upload the files to my
server and try to test
> the
> page with the SSI inserted into it, I get the following
error message:
>
> HTTP/1.1 404 Object Not Found Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Date: Sat, 05 May
> 2007
> 19:42:48 GMT X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Connection: close
Content-Type:
> text/html
> 404 Object Not Found
>
> Both files are located in the same directory (maybe
that?s a problem?)
>
> My question is simple, exactly what should I absolutely
NOT delete out of
> the
> source SSI file? Is there some part of it other than the
content I want to
> reference that needs to stay in there?
>
> Also, both my server side include file and the html file
that references
> it
> are saved with the .shtml extension. Is this wrong? Or
does the ssi file
> need
> to be saved with an.ssi extension?
>
> Again, sorry for the amateurish questions, but we all
have to learn
> sometime
> right?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> Thanks,
>
> ~Greg
>
>

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