Odd unresponsiveness in my MBP

In my new MBP which I have been using for a month, after several days of usage some system components stop responding.
Clicking the power button does not pop ups standard power menu, volume up/down mute keys not responding. Apple menu items such as about this mac, sleep, shut down, restart not responding also. commandoptionesc is not working and force quitting finder from activity monitor didn't solve the issue. Clicking some of the system preferences elements such as display, keyboard etc. cause unresponsive system preferences. Other everything works properly. Finally I press power button longly for hard power off. Then start the computer again and after several days of usage this problem appears again.
I have installed all of the updates including firmware update, performed AHT, verify disk, repair disk permission, hard drive surface scan with techtool pro but everything was fine. Finally I have installed Mac OS X again to a erased macintosh hd, installed all of the updates again, but the problem not solved. Finally I reseted the smc and waiting for the problem appear again desperately.
Is there anybody who has an idea about that problem? or anybody has a same problem?
Please help!
Message was edited by: BurakTR

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Boot from your install disc and navigate to Disk Utility and repair your boot disk. See if this helps.
If you can, Download SMART Utility:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/systemdiskutilities/smartutility.html
You can download the demo and run it several times for free. SMART Utility is somewhat more critical than Disk Utility, and may be able to detect impending hard drive failure sooner.
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