Late 2007 MacBook Crashing

In December when working on an iMovie project I went to add an effect to my project and my computer hung for about 30 minutes and then came up with the "hold the power button" panic message. After which iMovie and iDVD would not load at all, just bounce and go away. I decided after trying many things to rebuild from Time Machine (after all thats one of the great things about leopard!). After doing so I have had two panics both while loading video software, here is the log from the dvd crash. I simply put a DVD in and dvd player started then whack, it died.
Mon Feb 18 13:03:37 2008
panic(cpu 1 caller 0x0042928B): "getPhysicalSegment() out of 32b range 0x12092f000, len 0x1000, class IOGeneralMemoryDescriptor"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1228.3.13/iokit/Kernel/IOMemory Descriptor.cpp:1473
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x5b0c79d8 : 0x12b0e1 (0x457024 0x5b0c7a0c 0x13321a 0x0)
0x5b0c7a28 : 0x42928b (0x49a934 0x2092f000 0x1 0x1000)
0x5b0c7af8 : 0x42c8ec (0x1234a300 0x0 0x0 0x7a1df000)
0x5b0c7b18 : 0x7305ec (0x1234a300 0x7a1df000 0x0 0x8214308)
0x5b0c7b38 : 0x43aa4c (0xee73000 0x7d563b8 0x75d0598 0x8)
0x5b0c7b78 : 0x43b5ff (0x74dd60 0xee73000 0x7d563b8 0x8)
0x5b0c7bd8 : 0x4391a8 (0xee73000 0xe 0x5b0c7c20 0x0)
0x5b0c7cf8 : 0x43a8e9 (0xee73000 0xe 0x0 0x0)
0x5b0c7d68 : 0x189f31 (0xee73000 0xe 0x7d563b8 0x8)
0x5b0c7db8 : 0x12d165 (0x7d56390 0x75d0570 0x0 0x0)
0x5b0c7df8 : 0x126247 (0x7d56300 0x0 0x34 0x5b0c7ee4)
0x5b0c7f08 : 0x19714c (0x5b0c7f44 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x5b0c7fc8 : 0x19f184 (0x12389200 0x0 0x10 0x0)
No mapping exists for frame pointer
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0xbfffd4b8
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelGMAX3100(5.2.4)@0x701000->0x7c1fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.5)@0x6f3000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.4.1)@0x60f000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.5.1)@0x623000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: DVD Player
Mac OS version:
9C31
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.2.0: Tue Feb 5 16:13:22 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.3.13~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBook3,1 (Mac-F22788C8)
Is this memory or motherboard? Does this mean anything to anybody? I've had two different responses, any help would be great, thanks!

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