How ****** am I ! osx lion crashes and wont upgrade

Ok here's my problem... Im so angry as i bought a mac based on the reputation of the company and MAN was I impressed when I first got my imac. So I did my upgrade on the first versions. Bought Lion and installed it thinking it would be great and why check reviews! Well call me the "dumby". After installing lion my machine run like it is a windows pc, freezing, crashing and wouldn't run cs5 at all. Well lets fast forward to right this minute... I am sitting infront of my imac watching the loading apple screen and typing this on my Apsire (windows 7) notebook. I updated the ram and tried  a few things including PAYING 19.99 FOR MOUNTAIN LION only to have it also crash saying "one second to go" PLEASE CANSOMEONE HELP! Or do I need to go buy a pc.
mike

Great help from ~Bee so far, just to add...
Bootup holding CMD+r, or the Option/alt key to boot from the Restore partition & use Disk Utility from there to Repair the Disk, then Repair Permissions.
One way to test is to Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, Test for problem in Safe Mode...
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive
Reboot, test again.
If it only does it in Regular Boot, then it could be some hardware problem like Video card, (Quartz is turned off in Safe Mode), or Airport, or some USB or Firewire device, or 3rd party add-on, Check System Preferences>Accounts>Login Items window to see if it or something relevant is listed.
Check the System Preferences>Other Row, for 3rd party Pref Panes.
See if the Disk is issuing any S.M.A.R.T errors in Disk Utility...
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH7029
Open Activity Monitor in Applications>Utilities, select All Processes & sort on CPU%, any indications there?
How much RAM & free space do you have also, click on the Memory & Disk Usage Tabs.
Open Console in Utilities & see if there are any clues or repeating messages when this happens.
In the Memory tab, are there a lot of Pageouts?

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