Leopard weird freeze after 1-5 min. after login

Really don't know what this weird freeze is caused by. The freeze happens randomly, not in a specific application or anyting. But when it freeze, I can move the mouse, but it's the colorwheel thingy, and everything else works as normal, that is until I click it. Then it freezes.
Example:
I'm running Firefox and surfes. Suddenly the colorwheel comes up. If I move this colorwheel outside of Firefox (down to the dock) it becomes an arrow again, and I can switch between icons in the dock. But when I click on an icon in the dock, then the dock freezes (again with the colorwheel).
And that happens with everything. The clock too. No shortscuts work either.
Only thing to do is power it down, with button on the back of the screen.
When I bought the computer, I also bought an extra ensurence with I used two weeks ago, with the same problem as descriped above. They sent it to Apple in Denmark and I got it back, with a note that they had changed the Harddrive. It did work until today. Now the same problem has come back to hunt me.
So, here I have a 8 month old iMac I can't use
All tips and ideas are welcome.
Really really need some help!

Hi,
No one should have an iMac for eight months and not be able to utilize it. The most important thing you can do for such an investment is to learn how to perform maintenance tasks.
Have you tried booting from your restore disk to check for errors?
If not...
Shut down your Mac. Now, press the power button, hold down the C key, and insert the restore disk all at the same time. Keep holding down the C key until you see the Apple logo. An Installer window will open but DO NOT proceed with any installations, instead from the Menu Bar, select Utilities/Disk Utility. In the DU window, select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select the FirstAid tab and click: Verify If DU reports errors, click Repair. When it's finished, from the Menu Bar select Utilities/Startup Disk and select MacintoshHD 10.x.x and click Restart.
And have you performed any maintenance lately?
Go here: Mac OS X: How to force background maintenance tasks (logs and temporary items)
Repair Disk Permissions using Disk Utility.
Launch Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select FirstAid, then click: Repair Disk Permissions. Quit DU when it's finished and reboot.
Carolyn

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