MacBook Pro 7,1 frequently freezes, force reboot needed.

Hi all,
since a while, I get frequent system crashes while doing what I assume is quite light work, since HDD is not very sollicited, CPU temperature is below 75°C, and RAM has around 3GB free. I can't find any culprit, but to notice frequency is high enough that I'm starting to worry.
Technically, this computer only had a RAM upgrade, getting 8GB from OtherWorld Computing (I didn't want to skimp on quality to save a few bucks) and installed uneventfully.
Typically, when the computer crashes, there's no warning, no kernel panic greyed out curtain. The trackpad responds normally, fan is often running at high speed (not always maximum speed), and when I hover the cursor above GUI elements, it doesn't react: the Dock icons don't grow, no info-bubble appears, and clicks aren't registered. When I try to put the computer to sleep by closing its lid (sometimes a solution for "soft" bugs), for minutes on, the fan still runs, screen doesn't turn off, and the computer doesn't go to sleep.
Typically, I have to force restart by holding the Power button, and the Console content is unhelpful: there's the few operations logged before the freeze, then the restart process, nothing in between. This time, there was a few piece of info written in the Console before restart:
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SpiderOak FSEvents[430]
/Volumes/Utilisateurs/Cubytus/Library/Application Support/SpiderOak/fs_notify__dir_watcher_ignore/ excluded by /Volumes/Utilisateurs/Cubytus/Library/Application Support/SpiderOak
24/01/12 22:29:04
SpiderOak FSEvents[430]
Notification change 7162257514882408282 in /Volumes/Utilisateurs/Cubytus/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/Users/Default/, flags 0
24/01/12 22:29:07
SpiderOak FSEvents[430]
Notification change 7162257514882408292 in /Volumes/Utilisateurs/Cubytus/Library/Application Support/SpiderOak/fs_notify__dir_watcher_ignore/, flags 0
24/01/12 22:29:07
SpiderOak FSEvents[430]
/Volumes/Utilisateurs/Cubytus/Library/Application Support/SpiderOak/fs_notify__dir_watcher_ignore/ excluded by /Volumes/Utilisateurs/Cubytus/Library/Application Support/SpiderOak
24/01/12 22:29:28
SpiderOak FSEvents[430]
Notification change 7162257514882408313 in /Volumes/Utilisateurs/Cubytus/Library/Application Support/SpiderOak/fs_notify__dir_watcher_ignore/, flags 0
24/01/12 22:29:28
SpiderOak FSEvents[430]
/Volumes/Utilisateurs/Cubytus/Library/Application Support/SpiderOak/fs_notify__dir_watcher_ignore/ excluded by /Volumes/Utilisateurs/Cubytus/Library/Application Support/SpiderOak
24/01/12 22:29:38
SpiderOak FSEvents[430]
Notification change 7162257514882408327 in /Volumes/Utilisateurs/Cubytus/Library/Cookies/, flags 0
24/01/12 22:29:41
SpiderOak FSEvents[430]
Notification change 7162257514882408337 in /Volumes/Utilisateurs/Cubytus/Library/Application Support/SpiderOak/fs_notify__dir_watcher_ignore/, flags 0
24/01/12 22:29:41
SpiderOak FSEvents[430]
/Volumes/Utilisateurs/Cubytus/Library/Application Support/SpiderOak/fs_notify__dir_watcher_ignore/ excluded by /Volumes/Utilisateurs/Cubytus/Library/Application Support/SpiderOak
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kernel
PM notification timeout (pid 18, configd) //HERE THE MOUSE CURSOR IS RESPONDING, COMPUTER IS FROZEN OTHERWISE.
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kernel
PM notification timeout (pid 70, efax)
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kernel
PM notification timeout (pid 51, cupsd)
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kernel
PM notification timeout (pid 64, loginwindow)
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kernel
PM notification timeout (pid 64, loginwindow)
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kernel
PM notification timeout (pid 64, loginwindow)
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kernel
PM notification timeout (pid 320, Finder)
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kernel
PM notification timeout (pid 1873, QTKitServer)
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kernel
PM notification timeout (pid 2617, Adium)
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kernel
PM notification timeout (pid 2617, Adium)
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kernel
PM notification timeout (pid 2669, plugin-container)
24/01/12 22:30:12
kernel
PM notification timeout (pid 2671, VDCAssistant)
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kernel
PM notification timeout (pid 320, Finder)
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kernel
PM notification timeout (pid 3702, backupd-helper)
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kernel
hibernate image path: /var/vm/sleepimage
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kernel
sizeof(IOHibernateImageHeader) == 512
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kernel
Opened file /var/vm/sleepimage, size 8589934592, partition base 0xc805000, maxio 400000 ssd 0
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kernel
hibernate image major 14, minor 3, blocksize 512, pollers 5
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kernel
hibernate_alloc_pages flags 00000000, gobbling 0 pages
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kernel
hibernate_setup(0) took 0 ms
24/01/12 22:30:14
kernel
Auth result for: 00:27:0d:0b:40:c1 MAC AUTH succeeded
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kernel
AirPort: RSN handshake complete on en1
24/01/12 22:32:15
kernel
npvhash=4095 //RESTARTED
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kernel
PAE enabled
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kernel
64 bit mode enabled
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kernel
Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386
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kernel
vm_page_bootstrap: 1975728 free pages and 39504 wired pages
24/01/12 22:32:15
kernel
standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
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kernel
mig_table_max_displ = 73
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kernel
AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=0 LocalApicId=0 Enabled
24/01/12 22:32:15
kernel
AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=1 LocalApicId=1 Enabled
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kernel
calling mpo_policy_init for TMSafetyNet
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kernel
Security policy loaded: Safety net for Time Machine (TMSafetyNet)
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kernel
calling mpo_policy_init for Quarantine
24/01/12 22:32:15
kernel
Security policy loaded: Quarantine policy (Quarantine)
The last time it crashed that way, I used AppleJack (latest version at the time of this writing) to make a thorough cleansing of caches, permissions repairs, etc, using the "AUTO" flag instead of "auto".
For now, I would like to know what my solutions are, and why it keeps on crashing. How can I tell appart a hardware or software problem? Considering I'm in the middle of a very important project, I'm very concerned about data loss and lost time, even more than usual; is a full TM restore still advisable, or should I assume there's something wrong, somewhere, in the computer files and settings, and thus, that I should restore only documents and known good software settings?
What other solutions may be advisable?

darkrider92,
I have the same model MacBook Pro as the one that you got from your mom. Were you able to install the 10.6.8 update successfully onto the factory drive? Were you using the factory RAM when you tried to install the 10.6.8 update on the SSD?
Have you checked the Web site of the SSD’s manufacturer, to see if there’s a firmware update available for the SSD?
You can download the 10.6.8 update outside of Software Update from Apple here; in case you need to try to install this update several times, running it from your local disk would be more convenient than waiting for it to download again.

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