New Mac convert- iMac G5 Problem

I converted over to Mac just two months ago. I purchased an iMac G5 20" with 1gb ram and final cut express hd preinstalled from the factory. About a week ago after waking my iMac from sleep mode the computer froze. When I restarted it, it would not move from the gray screen with the spining wheel. I took it to the Genius bar and the guy there was able to fix the OS with disk warrior and then do an archive and install. He said that it should work ok, but that there was a chance it could freeze up again, not sure why though.
So after taking it home for one day the computer once again locked up at the startup. So I decided that since I have backed up my music files, i would do a erase and install and take it back to factory specs.
Heres the new problem. My iMac takes much much longer to boot up, sometimes 5 to 8 minutes. When I to to system preferrences and click on the .Mac icon my computer locks up and show the mulitcolor pinwheel cursor. It also does this on the iPod opitons when I click on the contacts and calendars sections. And at times safari and/or iTunes takes awhile to start up. Can anyone help?

I'd do a PRAM reset. Here's the instructions.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238
If that doesn't do it reset the PMU. Here's some more instructions.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449#faq4

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