My Mac is freezing-any ideas?

From time to time, my Mac will freeze without warning, I can still move the mouse and use Expose with the keyboard but none of the applications respond. This usually resolves itself after a minute or so but it's very annoying especially when it forces me to restart. I'm no expert, so I ran the disk utility from the installer cd, and did the disk repair. I got these messages:
-Incorrect number of thread counts
-Volume Bitmap needs minor repair
-Invalid volume free block count
-The volume Macintosh HD could not be repaired.
Should I try using DiskWarrior (i don't have it) or just reinstalling Tiger?
Thanks !

Thanks !
Just one more question, if I decide to reformat, can I just copy my applications (stuff like Word that has limited installs from the CD) to my Ipod and copy it back afterwards? And to reformat, should I just install and erase?
Thanks!

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