OSX 10.5.2 is crashing often and force quitting is NOT an option.

Fellow Mac users... My computer is crashing often. I can't seem to figure out what is causing it. It's happens sometimes without me even doing anything.
What happens is my screen freezes. I've waited it out for hours before and nada! Force quitting isn't even an option (mouse won't work and neither does the keystroke). The only way out of it is holding the power button for 10 seconds to power down. I'm constantly checking the disk and repairing permissions etc... I've booted off the Leopard DVD and ran disk doctor.. No problems to be repaired.
30GB of hard drive space free...
What the heck is going on here? Anyone else have this problem? Any suggestions?
Message was edited by: Scott Greenberg

You sure what you ran was Disk Doctor? If the software you ran was by Norton/Symantec, it is incompatible with any version of Mac OS X, and causes the very freezes you talk about.
If you ran Disk Utility and it found nothing wrong, it sounds like you ran into a data corruption, directory issue, disk too full (30 GB of free disk space is OK for 80 GB hard drives, but not for 200 GB or greater sized hard drives), bad permissions, or bad or incompatible hardware issue which needs to be isolated. Please tell us exactly what you ran? Is your data backed up? If you can access your data, and it isn't backed up, backup now*:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
So we can troubleshoot your problem more in depth without the risks entailed with failing hard drives which can exhibit the same symptoms as some of the other issues we've mentioned.
In summary please tell us:
1. Is your data backed up?
2. Did you run Disk Utility or Disk Doctor?
3. How big is your hard drive?
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

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