My cursor spins like a disk all the time, wont read any disks either, any ideas?

My cursor spins all the time, any ideas?

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So about a week ago my mac pro was running fine as i worked for a few hrs. then all the sudden i was clicking through firefox and i got a rainbow, it lasted ten minutes and i couldn't close the program, when i tried to click anything else it froze as well. I restarted, it went to grey screen froze, restarted itself, the booted as normal and ran fine. Then all the sudden it did again later the next night while working in photoshop. I went through my programs, deleted firefox and msn msgr as culprits, worked ok, then did it again while in safari. I closed everything rebooted, ran ONLY safari and it got the rainbow again. I went and verified my permissions, had some issues repaired them. Same rainbows. I went and tried to verify disk and i got issues with incorrect block count. "volume bit map needs minor repair" "volume header needs minor repair" I rebooted in target disk mode, used my macbook pro to run disk utility and try to repair. Got the same "error: filesystem verify or repair failed." i'm really out of ideas at this point asides reformatting and hoping for the best. Anyone have another solution?

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          Flash Player: Version: 12.0.0.77 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
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          Google Earth Web Plug-in: Version: 7.1 3rd-Party support link
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          AirPlay: Version: 2.0 - SDK 10.9
          AppleAVBAudio: Version: 203.2 - SDK 10.9
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          dynamiclinkmediaserver:          Version: 6.0.1 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
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          Microsoft AutoUpdate:          Version: 2.3.6 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link
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