Macbook freeze after Lion

My Macbook Pro freezes every now and again, especially when using Safari. This happens after an upgrade to Lion.
When I pop out the forced stopping window and give it the command to stop Safari, that window to freezes.
Mouse pointer still moved though, but can't select anything outside the frozen window's scope.
Safari was not running full-screen this time, so the link I suggestede earlier is not confirmed.
Hope This Helps in solving the issue.

I am having the same problem except I get the pinwheel and cant do anything, it just freezes randomly.  However mine freezes upon reboots if i do not leave that box checked that says to reopen windows.  I have to hold the power button down to shut it down then it will come back up ok.  I hope they fix this with a patch soon especially since I had 0 problems before the upgrade

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