Multiple failures after 2 HD changes

I bought an used Macbook about 2 months ago. The very next morning after I loaded all of my files into it, it crashed and I couldn't restart. I kept getting the little file icon with a question mark, which I later learned means that the startup disk couldn't be read or found. I took it to the Apple store and after a very quick look at the machine, got the hard drive replaced. They did all the data migration in-store for me.
Two months later, I am now living in Brazil, and the macbook starts to crash and exhibit the question mark at startup. I run a disk utility diagnosis (it eventually does start up after a couple of hours), and found that the disk needed to be repaired. I took it to an authorized technical support store here, they took 3 days to get back to me and say I had to replace the hard drive yet again. I tried to argue that it made no sense, but they said Apple had issued a recall for that model of HD, so I just let them do it. They wouldn't do the data migration for free, so I did it myself.
I borrowed an external HD, formatted a partition for use with Time Machine, did a full backup of the system before they replaced the internal HD. After I got the Macbook back, I tried to restore the system using Time Machine in the external HD. Problem is, after 3 hours of waiting around with no progress whatsoever, I chose to re-start the process and lost everything. I couldn't even see the MacIntosh HD startup disk. Nothing at all.
Next day, I brought the Macbook to another authorized Apple service store in another city. They took a look and said I just had to install the OS, there was nothing wrong with the disk. Sure enough, I got back home, booted from the OS disk and there it was, Macintosh HD! A disk utility check told me the disk needed to be repaired, I erased it completely and did a clean install of snow leopard. After that, I used the Migration assistant to get all my files, user accounts, and preferences into the Macbook. It seemed to work. This took me all day, yesterday.
By 11pm, the Macbook crashed again (spinning beach ball, not responsive to force quit). I had to shut it down by pressing the power button. Trying to restart, the **** folder with a question mark icon was back.... I couldn't even reboot from the disk image.
This morning, the Macbook start back up as if nothing had happened. I run a "verify disk" for the internal HD, it comes back clean. I verify the permissions, it comes back with several pages or problems, which I tell it to repair. Everything seems fine. However, after about 1 hour of using the computer (for work, mind you), it freezes up again and I can't even force quit anything. I am now wondering if it will crash again in another hour.
What do you think this is? I don't think it is a HD issue. After all, after 3 HDs, it could not possibly be that I always get the bad one in all of those different lots. I am thinking of wiping the hd clean again, installing snow leopard and then just copying the files and apps I need, leaving the users, preferences and all other crap behind. Do you think this will solve it or should I go back to the tech guys and deal with their total lack of customer service?

One additional phenomenon: once the gridlines appear , iTunes becomes very slow, and when I then minimize the iTunes window, the application stops responding completely.
-Jolli

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After my company changed the e-mail address, I had to change my Apple-ID. How do I update my purchased Apps after the change?

The renamed Apple ID does not update all the Apps but comes up with the old AppleID, but that ID is not there anymore and neither the old or the new password is working
On the FAQ pages I just find a long list of Apps, stores tc. that I have to update, but no explanation on how to do that.
I do not want to buy all the apps again just because I had to change the e-mail address and because of that the AppleID.
It is ok to remove the free ones and load them again, but the paid one?
How is Apple handling such things?

OK, after reading other and similar threads too, I found a solution myself.
Thought to share it.
On my iPhone, after the change was made at the AppleID site, I had to logoff from the old AppleID and then to relogon with the new/changed one. After that I could update all apps again

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