New MacBook Late 2009 frequent non responding applications

Hello everyone. I just got a new MacBook late 2009 a few weeks ago. I love being back on Mac OS X but the one issue that I'm having is this:
About once a day my MacBook will hit a spot where it doesn't want to open any applications at all. I use Safari, iTunes and yahoo messenger every day. I never shut down my MacBook. I just close the lid and let it sleep overnight. When these spells hit all I get is the bouncing beach ball and I have to force quit the application(s) and restart to get everything fast and snappy again. I got the RAM upgraded directly from Apple when I bought to 4GB. I have 219GB free on the hard drive so I don't know what could be causing the problem. Any help is much appreciated.

Just an update:
I got to thinking about anything that I have installed that could be causing the problem. So far it turns out that the Intego AntiVirus solution I had installed was causing the problems. I know Macs don't get viruses but I've always believe in having some sort of antivirus protection if anything to catch files that I might be passing on to my Windows using friends. So I went back to Norton Internet Security as I had bought that back in November. So far no application crashing and everything is running like it should.

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