My finder freezes for no apparent reason, What is happening?

The beachball appears and nothing happens, the most recent occurance was followed by a blank startup screen with no log in window and the only way to get anything working is to do aa hard reboot, which I hate doing cause that must mean something is seriously wrong...

I would navigate to the 10.6.8 update combo page and download and re-install 10.6.8. It's possible your download was corrupted somehow. After downloading and installing the update reboot from the 10.6.x install Disk, hold down the Option key at the startup tone and choose the Install Disc. Choose the language then click the Utilities menu and Repair Disk Permissions (2x) in Disk Utilities. Then exit and restart the computer normally.

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I used to be the proud owner of a MacBook Pro 2.66GHz 4GB RAM purchased in May 2009. For a year it just worked beautifully but about a week ago I started having problems. The MBP freezes and the only thing I am left to do is a manual shutdown.
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Hi Anitita,
Yes, it is a pain in the neck. I have been looking all over the Internet for possible ways to isolate this problem but its random behavior makes it very difficult. The worst part is that no matter which diagnostic test you run, the machine just comes out OK with no apparent problems.
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