Macbook late '08 freezing up, has trouble booting after iLife install.

A couple of days ago I installed iLife '11 on my Macbook and went to run the updates that the App Store was telling me were available, including the Mountain Lion 10.8.4 update. I shut the lid of my computer while they were downloading, without thinking and when I opened it again, the screen was dark, but the computer was on. I forced a shutdown and went to reboot but got stuck at the grey Apple logo and timer wheel. I zapped the PRAM and it booted right up but it told me that I needed to restart to install the updates. I did so and had trouble booting again. I had to do the PRAM thing a couple more times to get it to boot but when it did, the only update that installed was GarageBand. I ran it until all of the updates had downloaded and it asked me to restart. Everything went smoothly this time but when I logged back in the OS X 10.8.4 update was sitting there waiting to be installed again. I reset to install twice more but it never installed. Now whenever I'm running an application it will freeze up after a time, and when I go to quit the application the whole computer freezes, forcing me to force shutdown but putting me back to where it freezes on boot up. Freezes when I try to boot into safe mode or recovery mode often as well. I can manage to get in every once in awhile, after zapping the PRAM two or three times, but even that is starting to freeze too. Any one know what's going on? I ran iAntiVirus and it found nothing, I'm working on uninstalling iLife to see if that helps too.
I'm running Mountain Lion on a brand new Toshiba 1tb external drive connected to a Late 2008 aluminum unibody MacBook that I bought off my friend's dad back in March. No internal drive because the one that was in it failed in May.

Let me start by saying do you know how easy it is to replace the hard drive in that MacBook? http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Unibody+Model+A1278+Hard+Drive+Replacement/8 16/1
First thought is to dump the anti virus software. It sounds to me as though your installation of OS X is hosed due to an incomplete update attempt. You need to repair the hard drive using Disk Utility and reinstall Mountian Lion completely, not just the update to 10.8.4.

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RIght now it's working (i used the :HFS+ Extended (journaled)" without encryption.
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iBook G4, 14 inch, 933Ghz, 400GB, 256MB Mac OS X (10.3)
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Macbook late '08 freezing up, has trouble booting after iLife install.

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