Strange freezing problem

I'm not sure where this goes, but it seems to fit here for now. I have had a weird problem with my G5 here at work for a long time. Sometimes when I move the mouse or click a mouse button, the machine freezes -- at least I think it does. I know the display freezes, but I can still hear the hard disk in there doing its thing, so I know the machine is still going. This usually happens while I'm browsing the web with Firefox, but sometimes I'll click a box in Quark or some other app and my whole world just stops.
This all started a year or two ago when I saw something about a G5 processor firmware upgrade in Software Update. Being a total newbie to the Mac platform at the time, I was given to installing whatever Software Update told me to install without investigating further. After installing this firmware upgrade, I started noticing these inexplicable freezes.
Could the freezes be related to the upgrade? Can I roll it back? Is there any other solution? I love my machine and, aside from this minor (actually major) annoyance, it's the most advanced and smoothest-working machine in the building.
Jeremy

Jeremy:
One more question about your system: How much free space do you have on the HDD?
In terms of maintenance and diagnostics the article by Gulliver I linked earlier has good advice and links to freeware that can be helpful. It also suggests a schedule for maintenance. Dr. Smoke's FAQ on Maintaining Mac OS X is even more comprehensive and can be very useful in maintaining your computer's good health. Dr. Smoke's FAQ Resolving Disk, Permission, and Cache Corruption also has suggestions that might be helpful to you in your current situation.
The first place to start with all this would be the step I already mentioned in terms of Repairing Disk with Disk Utility. You might want to download freeware like MacJanitor which is a simple low-cost way to do Unix Maintenance (CRON cleaning). I see you have Cocktail on your HDD. Check it out to see what it can do for you. (Be sure you read Dr. Smoke's caution about Cache Cleaning before you attempt that procedure).
This is a lot of stuff, and you likely won't get to it all at once. Let me know how it goes with Disk Repair, and whether the freezing probably persists.
Good luck.
cornelius
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