Menu bars for all applications are unusable

I have a new MacBook that was running Tiger when I opened up the box. I noticed that sometimes the Finder menu bar failed to respond when the cursor was passed over it or any item in it was clicked on (normally I'd expect to see the menu items drop down). I updated to OS to Leopard but although the menus worked for a bit, now they're acting up again. Oddly, the items to the right of the bar (Airport, Bluetooth, etc.) still work.
I looked through the threads and one of them suggested using the Disk Utility to repair permissions and zapping the PRAM, which I did. The logging from the repair didn't give up much -- just the following for a bunch of languages:
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Desktop".
Anyone think of anything that might be causing this? Maybe a software conflict with something I migrated over from the previous iBook?

Steps taken:
(1) slaved the iBook to the MacBook and migrated the configuration from the old to the new notebook. Both the iBook and the MacBook were at that time running Tiger -- the iBook has a 30GB stock hard drive in it and other than Office X and some shareware was relatively clean. The migration had one hiccup - I was using an olde version of iPhoto and when I opened it I was prompted to update the thumbnails in my picture library. This essentially froze the application when the progress bar was about a quarter done. In the end I fixed that.
When I noticed the problem with the menu bars (which by the way appear to be somewhat translucent), I tried rebooting a couple of times. At this point, the problem was random and appeared only to affect the Finder Menu bar. So a reboot had the effect of seeming like it was fixing it. When it didn't go away, I was looking arounf and hit About This Mac and discovered Leopard was uninstalled. I opened the software box and found the install disk, so I ran it. Again, the problem appeared to go away.
I didn't use the MacBook for about a week, maybe ten days, and thenlast night I noticed that the problem affected all menu bars regardless of application.Tried rebooting. No go. Tried reparing permissions - no problems found. Zapped he PRAM three or four times. No workee.
That's where I'm at now.
I have Disk Warrior and Drive Genius, but I haven't tried them yet because (a) I thought this miht be a simple issue resolvasble on the threads, and (b) I bought them when I was running 10.3 on G3s and G4s respectively, and wasn't sure they were Leopard or Intel compatible.

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