Possible problem w/ my mini

Hi all,
I just recently purchased a used mac mini (mid 2010) w/ 8 gigs of memory.   I started having crashes where the screen turns grey and tells me I need to reboot my machine.  It's happened for a variety of reasons, like playing a dvd or an x-men movie i have in itunes. 
I've taken this to the Genius folks and after a day they told me that it were the 3rd party RAMs.  Excited to know the problem was resolved I replaced the rams with another brand and shortly thereafter it still crashes.
What now can it be?  I am running the latest 10.7.1 and have the latest updates.  Help!  I'm not that confident with the Genius folks.  I remember asking the guy how is it that they deterimined it was a bad ram and he just said some giberish and then said well i didn't take those rams and test it on another machine.  So, I'm a bit skeptical these guys did a thorough inspection.  I got a feeling all they did was see kernel panics and typical blamed it on third party hardware.
What do you guys think possible problems with my machine???  Thanks.

Well it is hard to diagnose bad Ram.  Pretty much people replace it, and see if the new stuff (or old stuff) works better.  There are RAM tests, but they can literally take ages to run, and quicker tests aren't that reliable.
But if you put in new RAM and are still having kernel panics, then I would also suspect your system and or hard drive.  FYI, after I used Migration Assistant to move files from my old G5 to my new Mini, the mini would panic every few minutes.  I had to reinstall Lion from scratch, manually avoid getting old code on the mini, but now my new mini flies and runs great.
Zapped your PRAM?  Also, I assume you've already tried disk utility to repair any issues on your hard drive?
Do you have an extra external disk you can put a clean version of Lion on to run?    Finally, any vestiges of Power PC code that might be hanging around?
jb

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