Snow leopard logs out and applications crashing

I replaced hard drive in macbook and decided good time to upgrade to snow leopard.  well now with clean install on new hard drive snow leopard randomly logs me out and i get a blue screen flash then end up on log in. it does it on regular log in and safe mode. It also does it with aftermarket 4g of ram and apple 1g of ram that came with macbook. Also before it logs out if im in safari it keeps reloading the page almost everytime i touch the track pad
any help would be appreciated.
using 10.6.8

Solved.
Hardware test said everything was good. I ended up using imac at home to make bootable usb drive of snow leopard. installed that and got same results. finally someone suggested redoing partition since i did original partition on the superdrive in macbook. New partition, clean install and everyting working great

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