"Not enough system memory" when there is?

Hi,
Yesterday I had a screen freeze and did a forced restart. After that I've been having a problem that will not go away, altho I have run Disk Warrior and Disk First Aid.
When I try to launch applications I'm sometimes getting an error message saying: "There is not enough system memory, please close an application, etc."
The puzzle is that I have plenty of free available memory when I'm getting this message. It also seems to jump between applications. First I couldn't open Word. Now Word launches but I can't open Internet Explorer, altho Mozilla launched okay. Re-starting and running Disk Warrior didn't help. I don't get it. What else should I do?
Thanks much!

Hi, Paul -
Is it possible for it to change itself during a mishap (freeze)?
It's just about impossible for that to happen. When a program's memory allocation settings are changed, the new numbers are not entered in an external document like most prefs setting. Instead, it changes a bit of the code in one of the resources in the program itself (judicious use of ResEdit will reveal this). For just that particular piece of code to be altered in an acceptable way as the result of a freeze is nigh impossible.
However, there is a utility program named Reaper whiuch will make such changes with no input from the user. Its purpose is to automatically change the memory allocations for programs based on perceived usage and need. Unfortunately it will make such changes according to its logic, which is not constrained by the logic of the user.
Check to see if Reaper has been installed. It uses a control panel as a user interface; not sure what the name of that control panel is, but it may be Reaper. If you find it has been installed, try deactivating it.

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This is fm's daughter who is havin ghte difficulites. at the end you tell me to try to answer 1-8 so i will try.
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