OSX 10.6.5 lockup

Hello everyone,
I am a long time Mac user, but I seem to have stumbled upon a problem, and I cannot figure out what the problem is. I have a Mac mini that was recently updated to 10.6.5. It was workin fine for about a year and then after the 10.6.5 update, it began to lock up if left idle for longer periods o time (e.g. about 2 hours or more). It will become unresposive, and while the monitor will be on, the keyboard an mouse do nothing, the screen freezes at wherever it was - nothing happens, and i have to resort to a hard reset by holding the power button. I never had this problem with 10.6.4 and I haven't changed installed items at all. This is what has me stumped. I don't know where to start. I have checked the log files but found nothing of note in there.
I would appreciate any info on my problem or what could be causing it. If you need additional information regarding my problem, please ask me.
Thanks in advance for your help.

I would have to agree with bitman, a clean install of SL would be the faster option for you. But if you are to do that please make sure you have backup copies of all your files, even put some important files in the cloud as some data can go missing during this. I bet it has happened to a number of people, files going missing even tho they are backed up and dont forget hard drives fail.

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Model Identifier:
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9C7010
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Martin,
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