Programs Keep Freezing, Why?

I just got the mid-priced macbook because my iBook g4 crashed 2 weeks ago. I transfered all of my files over and have not been having much luck with this little guy. I get no mooing or whine, and the CoreDuoTemp indicates that it runs at acceptable temps, but programs keep freezing on me. I've had to re-boot more than 5 times today. This is highly frustrating because I could let my G4 run for weeks without restarting it.
I've been working on a video project all week, and the programs that have been freezing are: Entourage, iTunes, iMovie, iDVD, CoreDuoTemp, Sound Studio. Sometimes the programs freeze as soon as they are opened and sometimes it's in the middle of a task.
I did have Limewire installed, but I deleted it earlier today, still having problems.
Any ideas? This is so frustrating.

I've verified and repaired disk permissions, I've run the hardware test, no problems detected. I also downloaded and did the memtest, everything passed. Programs are still closing, particularly strange is soundstudio, it is no longer freezing, it is now just closing and no error messages, or anyother types of messages appear in the console log.
Another oddity is that the "sound" icon in my system preferences looks like a light switch...it's boxed in, clearly not what it should look like. I only know it's the sound icon because when I click on it, the sound options come up. The icon has no label.
I'm just baffled.

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