MBP freezes after 10.4.11 and I can't get through to AppleCare

Question

This is beyond ridiculous. Since applying the 10.4.11 update, my MBP always locks up after waking from sleep. There has been no exception since updating. I kept it turned off for about 24 hours, then used it all afternoon without letting it sleep and didn't have a single freeze. Sure enough, the first time I closed the lid to let it sleep, it locked up within seconds of waking up. This was happening spradically prior to the 10.4.11 update, but now it's rendering my MBP unuseable.
Yes, I have AppleCare and I tried calling Apple twice last week. Both times, I got cut off. Both times, I could barely understand the Indian trying to help me, and one got snippy with me when I had to keep asking him to repeat himself. Neither time did I actually get to speak with a technician. One of those times I got a recorded message telling me that Apple was closed for the holiday and to call back during normal business hours. Friday wasn't a holiday (at least not in this country) and I was calling during normal business hours for THIS country, but perhaps not for India. I've never experienced any trouble getting AppleCare support via telephone in the past, even on Sundays.
I've run Apple Hardware Test and TechTool Deluxe, neither of which reports any drive problems. The nearest Apple Store is an hour's drive from here. Apparently, I have one of the Seagate drives recently found to be defective. All I want to know is whether or not I should let Apple replace the drive with one that isn't defective.
I'm at a loss here. I'm paying for AppleCare, but can't get through to a comprehensible English speaker capable of answering that very simple question. I can't let my MBP sleep because it'll lock up upon waking. I can't find any way to send feedback to Apple about the unacceptable experience trying to get through to support last week. Is no one accountable for anything these days? And to think I bought an iPhone last week too!

Answer 1

Here is what I think may be the relevant portion of my system.log file. I've had no luck at all finding someone willing to tell me how to parse log files to troubleshoot errors. The freeze happened right about Nov 25 22:00:00. Note the times at the beginning of each line.
Nov 25 21:01:47 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro loginwindow[2433]: Login Window Started Security Agent
Nov 25 21:01:53 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Resources/airport: Currently connected to network Joe's Network
Nov 25 21:55:59 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: AFPSleepWakeHandler: going to sleep
Nov 25 21:56:02 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: hibernate image path: /var/vm/sleepimage
Nov 25 21:56:02 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: sizeof(IOHibernateImageHeader) == 512
Nov 25 21:56:02 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: Opened file /var/vm/sleepimage, size 2147483648, partition base 0xc805000, maxio 400000
Nov 25 21:56:02 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: hibernate image major 14, minor 2, blocksize 512, pollers 3
Nov 25 21:56:02 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: hibernateallocpages flags 00000000, gobbling 0 pages
Nov 25 21:56:02 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro launchd: Server 0 in bootstrap 1103 uid 0: "/usr/sbin/lookupd"[191]: exited abnormally: Hangup
Nov 25 21:56:02 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro configd[78]: posting notification com.apple.system.config.network_change
Nov 25 21:59:36 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: System SafeSleep
Nov 25 21:59:36 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: hibernatepage_listsetall start
Nov 25 21:59:36 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: hibernatepage_listsetall time: 123 ms
Nov 25 21:59:36 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: pages 218835, wire 61812, act 19596, inact 27592, zf 13802, could discard act 34743 inact 61290
Nov 25 21:59:36 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: hibernatepage_listsetall found pageCount 218835
Nov 25 21:59:36 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: IOHibernatePollerOpen, mlget_interruptsenabled 0
Nov 25 21:59:36 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: IOHibernatePollerOpen(0)
Nov 25 21:59:36 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: writing 218025 pages
Nov 25 21:59:36 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: image1Size 96880640
Nov 25 21:59:36 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: all time: 6813 ms, comp time: 1050 ms, deco time: 0 ms,
Nov 25 21:59:36 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: image 234494976, uncompressed 499679232 (121992), compressed 231104028 (46%), sum1 f89b7fab, sum2 c005b10a
Nov 25 21:59:36 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: hibernatewriteimage done(0)
Nov 25 21:59:36 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: sleep
Nov 25 21:59:36 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: IOUSBWorkLoop::closeGate - interrupt Thread being held offEnabling XMM register save/restore and SSE/SSE2 opcodes
Nov 25 21:59:36 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: Started CPU 01
Nov 25 21:59:36 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: IOBluetoothHCIController::restartShutdownWL this is a wake from sleep
Nov 25 21:59:36 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: System Wake
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: hi mem tramps at 0xffe00000
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: PAE enabled
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: vmpagebootstrap: 512915 free pages
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: migtable_maxdispl = 71
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: Enabling XMM register save/restore and SSE/SSE2 opcodes
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: 102 prelinked modules
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: ACPI CA 20060421
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: ready
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorApicId=0 LocalApicId=0 Enabled
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorApicId=1 LocalApicId=1 Enabled
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: using 10485 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: Enabling XMM register save/restore and SSE/SSE2 opcodes
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: Started CPU 01
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: IOAPIC: Version 0x20 Vectors 64:87
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: ACPI: System State [S0 S3 S4 S5] (S3)
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: Security auditing service present
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: BSM auditing present
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: disabled
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: rooting via boot-uuid from /chosen: 4DB93950-5225-4DD2-BFC9-CBC701493457
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourceMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict>
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: USB caused wake event (EHCI)
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: FireWire (OHCI) TI ID 8025 built-in now active, GUID 0016cbfffe6b3cd4; max speed s800.
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/SATA@1F,2/AppleAHCI/PRT2 @2/IOAHCIDevice@0/AppleAHCIDiskDriver/IOAHCIBlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageDri ver/ST9120821AS Media/IOGUIDPartitionScheme/Customer@2
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: BSD root: disk0s2, major 14, minor 2
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: jnl: replay_journal: from: 3496448 to: 10202624 (joffset 0x37e000)
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: CSRHIDTransitionDriver::probe:
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: CSRHIDTransitionDriver::start before command
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: CSRHIDTransitionDriver::stop
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: IOBluetoothHCIController::start Idle Timer Stopped
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: HFS: Removed 3 orphaned unlinked files
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: Jettisoning kernel linker.
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: Resetting IOCatalogue.
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: display: family specific matching fails
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 0
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 20
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 20
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 20
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 20
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 20
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: 3
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: display: family specific matching fails
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: RBIOKitController: started.
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: display: family specific matching fails
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: ath_attach: devid 0x1c
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: athdescdmasetup: tx dddescpaddr = 0xd09d000, length 0x46500(288000) bytes
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: athdescdmasetup: beacon dddescpaddr = 0xce6c000, length 0x90(144) bytes
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: mac 10.3 phy 6.1 radio 10.2
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost kernel[0]: IPv6 packet filtering initialized, default to accept, logging disabled
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost mDNSResponder-108.6 (Jul 19 2007 11: 41:28)[37]: starting
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost memberd[45]: memberd starting up
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost lookupd[46]: lookupd (version 369.6) starting - Sun Nov 25 22:02:06 2007
Nov 25 22:02:06 localhost DirectoryService[51]: Launched version 2.1 (v353.6)
Nov 25 22:02:08 localhost diskarbitrationd[44]: disk0s2 hfs ECE1AEDE-FA7B-3D14-849F-78121DFFDFFB Macintosh HD /
Nov 25 22:02:08 localhost kernel[0]: yukonosx: Ethernet address 00:16:cb:c8:fe:4f
Nov 25 22:02:08 localhost kernel[0]: AirPort_Athr5424ab: Ethernet address 00:16:cb:ba:e3:19
Nov 25 22:02:08 localhost kernel[0]: Registering For 802.11 Events
Nov 25 22:02:08 localhost kernel[0]: [HCIController][setupHardware] AFH Is Supported
Nov 25 22:02:08 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro configd[42]: setting hostname to "Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro.local"
Nov 25 22:02:08 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro lookupd[68]: lookupd (version 369.6) starting - Sun Nov 25 22:02:08 2007
Nov 25 22:02:11 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow: Login Window Application Started
Nov 25 22:02:12 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro configd[42]: executing /System/Library/SystemConfiguration/Kicker.bundle/Contents/Resources/enable-net work
Nov 25 22:02:12 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro configd[42]: posting notification com.apple.system.config.network_change
Nov 25 22:02:12 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro lookupd[73]: lookupd (version 369.6) starting - Sun Nov 25 22:02:12 2007
Nov 25 22:02:12 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro Parallels: Loading Hypervisor module...
Nov 25 22:02:12 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro loginwindow[71]: Login Window Started Security Agent
Nov 25 22:02:12 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: [Parallels] Parallels Hypervisor started.
Nov 25 22:02:12 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro Parallels: Loading Monitor module...
Nov 25 22:02:13 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: [Parallels] Parallels VM observer thread started
Nov 25 22:02:13 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro Parallels: Loading ConnectUSB module...
Nov 25 22:02:14 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro configd[42]: target=enable-network: disabled
Nov 25 22:02:14 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro Parallels: Loading Network module...
Nov 25 22:02:14 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro Parallels: Loading Virtual Ethernet module...
Nov 25 22:02:14 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro mDNSResponder: Adding browse domain local.
Nov 25 22:02:14 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: comparallels_kextPvsvnic0: Ethernet address 00:1c:42:00:00:00
Nov 25 22:02:14 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: comparallels_kextPvsvnic1: Ethernet address 00:1c:42:00:00:01
Nov 25 22:02:15 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro Parallels: Staring DHCP/NAT daemon...
Nov 25 22:02:15 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro pvsnatd[228]: en2: DHCP for 10.37.129.2-10.37.129.254 netmask 255.255.255.0
Nov 25 22:02:15 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro pvsnatd[228]: en3: DHCP/NAT for 10.211.55.2-10.211.55.254 netmask 255.255.255.0
Nov 25 22:02:16 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro Parallels: Restarting InternetSharing...
Nov 25 22:02:16 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro Parallels: Restaring CiscoVPN...
Nov 25 22:02:16 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro Parallels: Initialization complete.
Nov 25 22:02:19 Joe-Heafners-MacBook-Pro /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Resources/airport: Currently connected to network Joe's Network