MBP freeze booting from any drive

My MBP is two years old. It has recently started freezing unpredictably. Total lock-out freeze. No movement whatsoever, mouse stops, nothing reponds. Hard reset required. Often gives the grey "you need to restart multilingual screen" on powering up after this. After a few times I can usually get it to boot up. What makes this most worrying is that the freezes happen irrespective of what system I boot up into.
I have used the main OS 10.4.11 partition, a boot camp partition running XP, an external firewire bootable copy of the system from a month or so ago, and a Tech Tools Pro 4.0 bootable CD. I can boot up into all systems, but all have given me the same kind of freeze at some point. This should help me pin down the problem...but I'm not knowledgable enough. Anyone recognize this?
Thanks
S

Sounds like a hardware problem but could simply be faulty RAM. Does the computer kernel panic (that restart screen) even if you boot from an OS X Installer Disc? If you have the original OS X Installer Disc that came with computer then do the hardware diagnostics:
How to run hardware diagnostics for an Intel Mac
Boot from your original OS X Installer Disc One that came with your computer. After the chime press and hold down the "D" key until the diagnostic screen appears. Run the extended tests for a minimum of two or three hours. If any error messages appear note them down as you will need to report them to the service tech when you take the computer in for repair.
Some "common" error indicators:
SNS - sensor error
MEM - memory error
HDD - hard disk drive error
MOT - fan error

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