Installation of new hardware results in slow performance.

Macbook Pro Late 2008 4 GB Ram 2.53 ghz
Upgraded to:
8 GB Corsair Ram
256 GB Crucial M4 SSD
(I just installed Lion onto the new drive and started fresh)
After installing these two components in my Macbook Pro I noticed some serious performance degradation.
The pinwheel pops up every couple of minutes, some times everytime I try to do anything with the the macbook. Performance is fine otherwise.
Starting up the machine can take as little as 30 seconds and as much as 3 minutes. Sometimes I'm stuck on the apple logo for a good 3 minutes or so before start up.
The performance issues occur at random. Sometimes it starts up fine and is fine throughout the entire time that I am using it, sometimes it runs miserably, more often than not.
I've attempted reinstalling my old RAM, this resulted in no improvement.
Using my old HDD the Macbook runs fine, I've concluded the culprit is the M4.
Some things I've noticed:
Starting up in the recovery drive and repairing disk permissions and the disk seems to correct this problem for a short period of time
Reinstalling the OS fixes everything, however, after restarting the machine the issues arrise again.
Upgrading to Mountain Lion produces the same effect
Macbook will not let me use TRIM when using The TRIM Enabler. Have not attempted to do this manually.
The activity monitor does not display any unusual behavior
The question is, what is wrong with my SSD?

Not kidding, at all
Disk permissions returned this:
Warming SUID file "System/Library/CoreS...as been modified and will not be repaired.
ACL found but not expected on "Private/Var/Root/Library"
ACL found but not expected on "Private/Var/Root/Library"
Permissions verification complete
Repaired both disk Ann's permissions (took nearly an hour, no luck)
Startup items that are checked are:
iTunes Helper
I downloaded and ran the TRIM enabler however it kept saying that the patch was already installed and was either not supported by the m4 or that I needed to restart
Something's to note:
Problem became serious when I:
A) Attempted to use time machine
B) when I moved about 8 gbs of music from a thumb drive to my solid state drive

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1. How can I verify that the slow performance is due to the HDD being defective/badly configured/etc.?
Run Apple Hardware Test: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509
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