My cursor frequently freezes and I cannot force quit or anything and I will need to reboot

Within the last couple of months I have been having a problem in regards to my cursor freezing up.  It freezes all of my applications and option+command Esc does not work nor Control Command Power button.  The only thing that works is just pressing power button, which I hate to do, but I feel I have no other choice.  This is occuring more frequently than before and is becoming a major concern. 
I've been using the trackpad to scroll when this occurs.
HELP!

Excuse my ignorance but I don't know how to change the batteries or perhaps I cannot do that. 
My Macbook pro is silver and has operating system of 
MacBookPro6,2   10.6.8
There is no way to get access to it, unless I went under the hood.  There is no direct access to just the trackpad.
This seems to happen when I am on the net and I am touch scrolling using the trackpad (with Inertia)
It's very disconcerting that it is not just one application that freezes, but the computer as a whole and that I don't even have access to my cursor.
I have run disk utility afterwards in hopes that it would repair it but with no luck.

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