MacBoock Freezes almost ramdomly, specially under graphics requirements

My macbook is 2 years old, White, 13-inches Core Duo 1.8Ghz (not Core 2 Duo). It's my second one, first one was replaced becouse of constant kernel panic problems...
With the new one, i've had no more kernel panic, but random freezes... it could be while surfing the web, changing from one application window to another or wherever...
freezes always look the same: i can still move the cursor, but cant do anything with it, in 10-30 seconds it becomes the spining-colour-wheel, only thing i can do is hard reset. If i try to put it in sleep mode (closing laptop and then opening it) the screen is still on, but almost invisible (zero brightness). I've tried sometimes to wait, and after 15-30 minutes, if I close the laptop and open it again, only sometimes is possible to get back to work.
Freezes are random, but I can force my macbook to freeze if I try "cover flow" in leopard, I only have to silde a few photos or files in cover flow... and I get 100% freezes... I can live without cover flow, but other apps, like google earth or others that require graphical resources, will make my macbook almost always to freeze.
Anyone have experienced anything simmilar?
Any idea?
I've tried to repair disk permissions... and some other simple advices like that... I had this problem with tiger, and now with leopard... also I'm sure that it is not a ram problem (becouse it happened with the 256+256mb ram from store, and still happens with 1+1Gb ram that I bought some months ago)
thanks

Thanks, Lyssa.
I might try the Activity Monitor, but when this happens I can't switch apps. I can switch Spaces, but that's about it. But thank you for the suggestion, because I'm now going to try checking the Console right after to see if it can tell me anything. (If it still happens when I'm not using Mail.)
With that said, the crash is always very sudden and seemingly random. I mentioned previously that everything gradually slows down, but it's not exactly gradual or slowing down. To better explain, everything becomes unresponsive except the cursor. Here is the usual process I go through:
1) I notice that I can't use Finder or switch apps. I use Spaces to move to any open apps and attempt to save and quit. Sometimes this works, and sometimes it doesn't. Everything else seems normal at this point, no spinning wheel, nothing slow, etc., but the Force Quit window (if I can open it) is completely blank.
2) I try to relaunch Finder by option-right-clicking its icon in the dock and choosing "Relaunch." Nothing happens. I repeat this if possible, but usually I no longer get a response from the dock. By this point, I can move my mouse but clicking no longer produces a response.
3) Occasionally, I try to shut down or restart by pushing the power button once and pressing enter in the dialog box. This has never fully worked, but the menu bar usually disappears and some apps may quit.
4) Finally, I give in and hold down the power button to force a shut down.
If I get another crash, I'll post my findings from the Console. Until then, any advice or ideas are welcome!

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