Mac Book Pro locks up after initial boot-up

Question

I have a late 2011 Mac Book Pro, 2.4 GHz running OS X 10.9.2.  During normal operations I am typically using  4-5 GB of RAM.  I have a 750 GB hard drive with 671 GB of free drive space.  After a normal boot-up the computer completely locks-up/freezes and I get the pin wheel indefinately.  I have tried the following items so far in an attempt to rectify the issue:
1) Reset NVRAM
2) Verfied that the issue remains with and without external keyboard, mouse, network cable and thunderbolt display attached.
3) Verfied that there is no disk in the optical drive.
4) Started up via the Recovery drvie and ran all disk utilities (repair disk, verify disk, and repair permisisons).  Both repair disk and verfiy disk came back without any issues noted.  Repair premissions came back with some iBooks errors that it said it fixed.  This has not corrected my problem.
5) Resinstalled the entire OS from the disk utility in Recovery Mode.  This seemed to correct my problem for almost a week but the same issue started happening again. 
It should be noted that this issue started within a day or two of loading the 10.9.2 update.  The machine appears to run fine from Safe Mode, which I am using now to write this message.  I was also able to use Safe Mode to run a web conference at work this morning with out any additional issues so I can't believe it is a hardware issue. 
Any help and/or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  

Answer 1

Well I ran it from safe mode and these are the results:
Hardware Information:
          MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2011)
          MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,2
          1 2.4 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4 cores
          8 GB RAM
Video Information:
          Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 512 MB
          AMD Radeon HD 6770M - VRAM: 1024 MB
System Software:
          OS X 10.9.2 (13C64) - Uptime: 0 days 0:12:57
Disk Information:
          APPLE HDD HTS727575A9E362 disk0 : (750.16 GB)
                    EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
                    Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 749.3 GB (670.88 GB free)
                    Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
          MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-8A8 
USB Information:
          Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
          Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub
                    Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
          Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
          Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
FireWire Information:
Thunderbolt Information:
          Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Startup Items:
          PKard: Path: /Library/StartupItems/PKard
Launch Daemons:
          [System] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.mcafee.ssm.Eupdate.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.mcafee.ssm.ScanManager.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.mcafee.virusscan.fmpd.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist 3rd-Party support link
Launch Agents:
          [System] com.citrix.AuthManager_Mac.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.citrix.ReceiverHelper.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.citrix.ServiceRecords.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.mcafee.menulet.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.mcafee.reporter.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.thursby.pkard.tokendagent.plist 3rd-Party support link
User Launch Agents:
          [not loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist 3rd-Party support link
          [not loaded] com.apple.CSConfigDotMacCert-[...]@me.com-SharedServices.Agent.plist
          [not loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist 3rd-Party support link
User Login Items:
          Activity Monitor
Internet Plug-ins:
          FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 12.0.0.77 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
          Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
          AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 10.1.9 3rd-Party support link
          AdobePDFViewer: Version: 10.1.9 3rd-Party support link
          Flash Player: Version: 12.0.0.77 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
          net.juniper.DSSafariExtensions: Version: (null) 3rd-Party support link
          CitrixICAClientPlugIn: Version: 11.8.0 - SDK 10.7 3rd-Party support link
          QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
          SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
          JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 51 3rd-Party support link
Safari Extensions:
          Evernote Web Clipper: Version: 6.0.5
Audio Plug-ins:
          BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
          AirPlay: Version: 2.0 - SDK 10.9
          AppleAVBAudio: Version: 203.2 - SDK 10.9
          iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
iTunes Plug-ins:
          Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9
User Internet Plug-ins:
          CitrixOnlineWebDeploymentPlugin: Version: 1.0.60 3rd-Party support link
3rd Party Preference Panes:
          Flash Player  3rd-Party support link
Old Applications:
          None
Time Machine:
          Skip System Files: NO
          Mobile backups: OFF
          Auto backup: YES
          Volumes being backed up:
                    Macintosh HD: Disk size: 697.84 GB Disk used: 73.03 GB
          Destinations:
                    Time Machine [Local] (Last used)
                    Total size: 148.73 GB
                    Total number of backups: 13
                    Oldest backup: 2014-03-12 18:39:36 +0000
                    Last backup: 2014-03-18 19:23:03 +0000
                    Size of backup disk: Too small
                              Backup size 148.73 GB < (Disk used 73.03 GB X 3)
          Time Machine details may not be accurate.
          All volumes being backed up may not be listed.
Top Processes by CPU:
              59%          mdworker
               2%          mds
               2%          EtreCheck
               2%          WindowServer
               1%          ps
Top Processes by Memory:
          172 MB          com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
          147 MB          com.apple.IconServicesAgent
          90 MB          Safari
          74 MB          CalendarAgent
          66 MB          WindowServer
Virtual Memory Information:
          5.29 GB          Free RAM
          1.74 GB          Active RAM
          340 MB          Inactive RAM
          645 MB          Wired RAM
          241 MB          Page-ins
          0 B          Page-outs