Occasional Hangs/Freezes on new Macbook Pro 15 2.5 GHz

I got this incredible MBP for my birthday a few months back and recently it hangs randomly when logging off, restarting or shutting down. I have to hold down the power button and power cycle it.
I have the latest version of Leopard 10.5.3 and all updates installed. I even went to the extent to reloading Leopard and still continue to have this problem about every 3-4 days.
Anyone have suggestions to what this may be? Is it hardware or software? Any feedback or resolutions would be greatly appreciated.
BB

Insert you Leopard installer disk and reboot while holding down the 'c' key. Select your language and from the Utilities menu select Disk Utility. Select your hard drive and run Repair Disk.

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