Macbook Pro running slowly and crashing with sleep

Title says it all, really. Whenever I open my Macbook Pro, after closing it to sleep, I have to hard-reset my computer by holding down the power button. Occasionally this problem springs up if I manually have my computer sleep, but typically only when I close it. Additionally, recently it's started running quite slowly as well. I've tried verifying/repairing permissions on the boot disk, but "Repair volume" just does the same thing over and over when I try it. I have 4GB DDR3 RAM, a 2.7GHz DualCore Intel i7 processor, and the Intel HD3000 Graphics Card chipset. 500GB internal hard drive (not a Solid State Drive to my knowledge), of which a little more than half is used. I'm pretty sure my laptop is the 2011 model. I'm running OS 10.7.2, or whatever the latest official release happens to be. Any help would be appreciated, seeing as I close my laptop between classes during the day, and having to reboot it every class is incredibly obnoxious.

I can't provide screenshots at the moment. I live near UNH so I sent it in to them for a supposed hardware fix - I got an email today saying what they tried didn't do anything. I read somewhere about deleting a certain extension relating to power management of the CPU (AppleIntel______.kext), but I didn't get to try it before I sent my computer in, and I can't find that article again. The only thing I had recently installed was Poker Night at the Inventory (a game from Steam), but I installed that on a separate laptop with no issues (my dad's 15" MBP). The fresh Lion install did put me up to 1.7.3. My activity monitor shows like this, normally, only "kernel_task" is taking up 300% CPU and my entire little CPU-meter at the bottom is filled with red. This is a screenshot from my dad's Mac, right now, which is identical to mine except it's a 15" instead of a 13".

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