MBP 5,1 - OSX 10.6.8 - Beachballs

Hello all,
I've been searching this site and many other forums for weeks now, ending up more confused than I had planned on.
About a month ago (Mid December, 2012) I noticed my Late 2008 MBP started hanging and showing beachballs. Here is what I have done so far...
Reset the PRAM
Reset the SMC
Logged in via Safe Mode - Seems to make things better for awhile, then begins hanging again.
Created alternate Admin account - Also seems to work ok
Watched System Monitor - hangs don't allow this to be updated fast enough to see what is causing it.
Checked Console Logs - Showing a ton of disk0s1 I/O Errors
The last bit leads me to believe I have too many bad sectors on my 4yr old HDD, so I did a Time Machine backup to an external and started researching replacements. Here is where my questions start...
Will my Time Machine backup be viable with all these I/O errors, or would I be better off with a fresh install?
In looking at replacement drives, I have narrowed it down to the
Seagate Momentus or WD Scorpio Black - both in 750GB configurations, leaning towards the Seagate - this is where I tend to get confused. Both of those drive show *some* MBP users having serious issues with beachballs after installing, which seems to be tied to the hardware in your machine being compatible or the version of Firmware 1.6 vs 1.7 Folks have gotten past it by either installing a SATA cable out of a different machine and/or downgrading firmware to 1.6
Is there a way to tell if my SATA cable is the correct one for this swap? Also, is the Seagate a good choice for my machine? I am not a power user, but would like to extend the use of this laptop for another 4 years, so wanted to go with as fast a drive as I could and Hybrid seems the way to go.
Any other help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I love my Apple devices, but this one is giving me gas...

vazandrew wrote:
Basic airplay will only beam content to your TV. Mirroring will display your entire screen. Basic airplay is supported on your machine.
Not ordinarily via Flash though unless Adobe has updated Flash to allow this or the latest 10.6.8 Safari update added something.
Not running a machine with 10.6.8 currently so can't test.
'Basic Airplay' is different to mirroring in that iTunes can send a pre-rendered (eg purchased) video stream to AppleTV as a target destination and pre-dated mirroring by some time but only from itunes on a Mac did it used to be available.
AC

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