MacMini Server 10.6.x WebServer ran fine for months, hanging up now ?

I bought a MacMini OS X Server (Snow Leopard) about six months ago, and it is only used for a small website on Business FIOS 20MGbit service. It has been lightning quick for months with no errors to speak of...
All of the sudden I accessed it last night and it hangs up, nothing has changed, nobody touches this server. It contains view only data, and the only thing it is used for is the plain vanilla website with no wiki, no mail, etc. No changes have been made since I installed the website, the only thing I do with this web server is update the OS when there are updates to be installed.
All the other machines are extremely fast so I am positive it is not FIOS, and besides when I ran permissions repair, there were tons of files that showed the permissions were not correct.
The log also has a bunch of errors that I had not seen before. When I first got the machine I used to find a few deprecated (this or that) errors but nothing like this.
I found another message with these same types of errors on this message board, but could not reply to it because it had been archived, even though there was no real answer to the problem. Not sure why no more entries were allowed when it was still an open issue ?
I would be grateful for any help.
Bill Hernandez
Plano, Texas
11/4/10 1:18:00 PM com.apple.WindowServer[205] Thu Nov 4 13:18:00 server.private WindowServer[205] <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
11/4/10 1:18:03 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[254] ([0x0-0x17017].com.apple.Console[1239]) Exited: Killed
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11/4/10 1:18:15 PM com.apple.launchd[1] * launchd[1] has started up. *
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11/4/10 1:18:36 PM org.apache.httpd[94] httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using ::1 for ServerName
11/4/10 1:18:37 PM com.apple.HeadlessStartup[117] /System/Library/ServerSetup/HeadlessStartup: line 186: REMOTESERVERENABLE: unbound variable
11/4/10 1:18:37 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.HeadlessStartup[117]) Exited with exit code: 1
11/4/10 1:18:38 PM com.apple.wikid[97] /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Extras/lib/python/zope /_init_.py:1: UserWarning: Module twisted was already imported from /usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/_init_.pyc, but /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Extras/lib/python is being added to sys.path
11/4/10 1:18:38 PM com.apple.wikid[97] _import__('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(__name_)
11/4/10 1:18:39 PM com.apple.wikid[97] /usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/mail/smtp.py:10: DeprecationWarning: the MimeWriter module is deprecated; use the email package instead
11/4/10 1:18:39 PM com.apple.wikid[97] import MimeWriter, tempfile, rfc822
11/4/10 1:18:39 PM com.apple.wikid[97] /usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/calendarserver/tap/caldav.py:49: DeprecationWarning: mktap and related support modules are deprecated as of Twisted 8.0. Use Twisted Application Plugins with the 'twistd' command directly, as described in 'Writing a Twisted Application Plugin for twistd' chapter of the Developer Guide.
11/4/10 1:18:39 PM com.apple.wikid[97] from twisted.scripts.mktap import getid
11/4/10 1:18:39 PM com.apple.wikid[97] /usr/share/wikid/lib/python/twisted_overrides/microdom.py:176: SyntaxWarning: assertion is always true, perhaps remove parentheses?
11/4/10 1:18:39 PM com.apple.wikid[97] assert (oldChild.parentNode is self,
11/4/10 1:18:43 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[201] (com.apple.ReportCrash) Falling back to default Mach exception handler. Could not find: com.apple.ReportCrash.Self
11/4/10 1:18:45 PM com.apple.wikid[97] 2010-11-04 13:18:45.203 wikimembership[242:903] Starting rebuild of directoryACLIndex
11/4/10 1:18:45 PM com.apple.wikid[97] 2010-11-04 13:18:45.560 wikimembership[242:903] Done rebuilding directoryACLIndex
11/4/10 1:18:46 PM ServerScanner[254] Preference says we shouldn't scan
11/4/10 1:18:46 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[201] (com.apple.Kerberos.renew.plist[258]) Exited with exit code: 1
11/4/10 1:18:51 PM com.apple.wikid.mailinglists[250] mail:status = "list-updated"
11/4/10 1:19:03 PM com.apple.WindowServer[132] Thu Nov 4 13:19:03 server.private WindowServer[132] <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
11/4/10 1:19:29 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.suhelperd[293]) Exited with exit code: 2
Message was edited by: Bill_Hernandez

These are the latest errors after the 10.6.4 update
The server does not appear to be hanging up any more, but it is still showing a lot of errors that it never showed before
Bill Hernandez
11/8/10 1:49:50 PM com.apple.launchd[1] * launchd[1] has started up. *
11/8/10 1:50:05 PM edu.mit.Kerberos.kadmind[96] kadmind: starting...
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11/8/10 1:50:09 PM com.apple.wikid[97] _import__('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(__name_)
11/8/10 1:50:11 PM com.apple.HeadlessStartup[117] /System/Library/ServerSetup/HeadlessStartup: line 186: REMOTESERVERENABLE: unbound variable
11/8/10 1:50:11 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.HeadlessStartup[117]) Exited with exit code: 1
11/8/10 1:50:13 PM com.apple.wikid[97] /usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/mail/smtp.py:10: DeprecationWarning: the MimeWriter module is deprecated; use the email package instead
11/8/10 1:50:13 PM com.apple.wikid[97] import MimeWriter, tempfile, rfc822
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11/8/10 1:50:13 PM com.apple.wikid[97] from twisted.scripts.mktap import getid
11/8/10 1:50:13 PM com.apple.wikid[97] /usr/share/wikid/lib/python/twisted_overrides/microdom.py:176: SyntaxWarning: assertion is always true, perhaps remove parentheses?
11/8/10 1:50:13 PM com.apple.wikid[97] assert (oldChild.parentNode is self,
11/8/10 1:50:16 PM com.apple.wikid[97] 2010-11-08 13:50:16.344 wikimembership[212:903] Starting rebuild of directoryACLIndex
11/8/10 1:50:16 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[221] (com.apple.ReportCrash) Falling back to default Mach exception handler. Could not find: com.apple.ReportCrash.Self
11/8/10 1:50:16 PM com.apple.wikid[97] 2010-11-08 13:50:16.755 wikimembership[212:903] Done rebuilding directoryACLIndex
11/8/10 1:50:19 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[221] (com.apple.Kerberos.renew.plist[267]) Exited with exit code: 1
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11/8/10 1:50:46 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.suhelperd[291]) Exited with exit code: 2

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It just takes ages to load and then says the connection was interrupted or that the internet is having problems :/ I found a help topic that said to unistall and reinstall firefox so I unistalled it and now I cant reinstall it cuz internet explorer doesn't work either

MacMini Server 10.6.x WebServer ran fine for months, hanging up now ?

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