MacBook Pro lot of problems!!!

Hi, about 5 months ago my magsafe charger stopped working. The machine would show fully charged at any percentage. Apple replaced the charger and not, 5 months down the line its stopped working again! The LED stops and the charging says completed. The fan is spinning at possibly the fastest it could go, the heat is rediculous. The machine was on for about 30 mins just doing basic tasks and I left for 5 minutes and come back to a buring hot machine, i had to instantly turn it off and leave it as it was so hot to touch. The start up time usually takes about 4 minutes and then apps crash, unresponsive? simple finer is running for some reason, there is no spotlight anymore and there is no shutdown option on the apple menu.

Install istat menus:
http://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/
Open Activity Monitor to ALL PROCESSES and set %CPU to display values in a descending order.
When the MBP gets hot, post images of both for inspection.
Also run an Apple Hardware Test:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1509
Ciao.

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