Spin Wheel Appears Randomly

I have recently been having a lot of problems with my 17 inch MacBook Pro. Very oftent, the spin wheel will appear randomly and lock into the spin mode... never getting out of it. I have let it run for long periods and it will continue to spin. I also am not able to "force quit" or start any other apps.
It's quite unpredictable when this will happen. And when it does, the only option I have left is to do a "hard manual powerdown".
I also attempted to update to iLife '08, using a recently purchased family pack dvd. I have successfully updated to a MacBook, a second MacBookPro, and an iMac. But this 17 in MacBookPro fails to update. It will attemp to update and will just hang in the middle of the updating sequence. Again, I have tried this numerous times and also allowed it to sit for long intervals with no change in status. I'm thinking that this may be a related problem.
I have used Disk Utility on several occasions to Repair Permissions. I have also Verified the disks. But it appears to do little in the way of solving this problem.
Can anything be done? Should I have the HD replaced? Can the HD be physically replaced on the MacBookPro? How would I go about replacing the HD?
Thank you.
I'm very frustrated. Any help would be very much appreciated.

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