Short Freezes on brand new MBP! - very annoying

Every few days i will be using my new mbp 15" (built to order with 4gb ram 3.06ghz and 7200rpm 500gb HD) and i start getting random freezes where the pointer keeps moving but nothing responds. Sometimes it gives my the pinwheel, sometimes it doesn't. the freeze will last for about 10-15 seconds. then it catches up to whatever i clicked or did while it was frozen and works fine for about 45 second to a minute. then the same freezing happens again! and so on. I am having this problem when all i have open is firefox, mail, and itunes(not even in use)! This should not be freezing up such a highly spec'd computer!? whats the deal

Also, Try using Disk Utility to do a Disk Repair, as shown in this link, while booted up on your install disk.
You could have some directory corruption. Let us know what errors Disk Utility reports and if DU was able to repair them.
Then Repair Permissions.
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