MBP Freezing on shutdown

Hi All,
Recently my MBP has started to completely freeze on shutdown. The freeze leaves the GUI completely intact yet nothing updates (IE time stops, etc). The mouse still moves but nothing can be selected. I've left it in this state for 5 minutes before holding power. On startup after this has happened it doesn't seem to complain either.
What would be the best set of steps to isolate the problem?
Thanks in advance
Mark

Ok well some of us have the same issue...
I thought it was the recent Parallels update that I did. I went to build 4560 and it seemed like this started to happen after that. I then booted the MBP ran a few things in Mac OS (never entered Parallels) and then it froze again on shutdown.
Yesterday morning I opened it up and reseated the RAM chips several times sliding them in and out.
When I went to shutdown at the end of the day it froze... I let it sit and after about 1 minute it actually did shutdown. I was quite surprised. I'll see if maybe I have not just been giving it long enough to finish doing what it is doing.
My question which started this is if there is any log file I can look at that shows the last shutdown sequence.
Thats the problem with having such a nice GUI on Mac OS... I no longer spend much time at the unix prompt looking at logs like I used to in Linux. Now I have no idea (forgetful) where things might be!
M

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