MAJOR PROBLEMS PLEASE HELP!!

Before I contact AppleCare I want to know what if I'm the only one who is experiencing all these malfunctions first.
I bought my iMac last year right around this time and I've never had problems with it until now.
I decided to leave windows computer about two years ago, I have an iMac and a powerbook g4 now for the very reason why I hated windows, that whole lagging and screen freezing thing.
Never seen it with any macs before until just last week.
My iMac just froze. I didn't know what it was.
I had about 9 safari windows opened and I believed that most of them were in tabs.
It never freezes until I Minimize a window. It just freezes. Can't click on anything even though the cursor is still active, the screen is still active its just not doing anything. So no panic I just need to restart right? Just a day later it did it again. And it keeps doing it. So I dont know whats wrong. Here's an image as to how it looks like.
Another problem I am having is with my external hard drives. I dont think its the hard drives because when I connect it with my powerbook it has no problems but with my iMac, every time I restart my computer it gives me that error about my external drives.
What do I do??

Since it is systemwide, I'd try to repair this with 10.4.10 Combo Updater Intel.
This is a fuller install, as opposed to an incremental "delta" update so it should overwrite any files that are damaged or missing. It does not matter if you have applied it before. It has worked well for many.
Remember to Verify Disk before update and repair permissions after update from /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.
EDIT: Is there something odd going on with red, yellow and green areas at the bottom of your display, or is that just a low quality image causing that?
-mj
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