Macbook issues: waking from sleep & odd sounds

Hello, I've had my macbook for about three weeks now and have experienced this waking from sleep problem several times. Simply what happens is I open the lid and the screen turns on, but all that comes up is the rainbow coloured circle, has anyone else had this problem?
Also rarely when a sound is played like emptying the trash the speakers make an odd crackling noise, and after that if you mute the speakers you get no sound but still noise.
Finally where can I put in the suggestion for frontrow, I'd like to be able to play music in frontrow from my ipod when connected, you can get to shared libraries but not a conncted ipod :/
Any help is appreciated!

happened again this morning, this time (though this has happened before) all usb ports become unuseable. the trackpad was still useable and i tried to reboot but the system froze.
this seems to happen mostly when its running on battery

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