Odd Shut Down/Restart Issue

I am running a MacBookPro with Leopard, and recently I have been finding that I am unable to shut down or restart the computer without having to hold down the power button. When I tell it to do either command while a program is running, it will quit the one program and just sit there for a while until I get the error message, "Logout has timed out because the application *application name* failed to quit. To try again, quit *application name* and choose Log Out from the Apple menu." When I try it with no applications running, it just quits Finder and eventually I get the error message which says "Logout has timed out because the application Finder failed to quit. To try again, quit Finder and choose Log Out from the Apple menu."
I have run disk utility and did both "Repair Disk Permissions" and "Verify Disk" but both came up with nothing.

I'm having much the same problem. I've tried everything I can think of, including repair attempts from single user mode, from the install CD, and from the GUI. Nothing's turned up as wrong, but there's definitely something wrong with my computer.
I can't seem to find any firmware updates or software updates that would help this problem at all.
Most every time I need to shut down my computer, I have to hard boot it by holding the power button down until it powers off.
Any thoughts or advice would be appreciated greatly.

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