System hangs after Leopard installed

First of all, I am using a Mac to try to avoid having to deal with tech-y things like kernals, whatever they are! I had an iMac for years which finally started giving out on me, so on October 1 I bought a new fancy iMac with max memory and features. I was worried about the impending upgrade to Leopard but wasn't certain how long it would be before it actually came out since the release had been delayed before.
Well, the machine with 10.4.x ran like a charm, but I just HAD to be the first on my block to upgrade to Leopard. I did a basic install and things seemed fine for a few days. I was having some real issues with Parallels so finally uninstalled that, and things worked OK for a while. The last two days, though, the thing will suddenly freeze and it seems to happen more and more!
It is freezing in a funny way---the cursor will still move, but you can't click anything, you can't move any windows, it's like the cursor is separated from what's on the screen by an invisible shield. I cannot use ALT-COMMAND-ESC to try to shut anything down, nothing happens when I try. SO, I have to use the power button to power down and then restart.
This can happen when I am browsing with Safari or when I'm reading my email and it has happened when the darn thing is just sitting there (I will find the screen saver on, nothing responds, and I have to repower the system)
I have tried to reinstall Leopard using the archive options, and have installed all the updates that have been found by Software Update.
I am using Time Machine to send backup data to a 300GB external HD and thought that that might be causing these hangups, but have disconnected the hard drive and it still happens. (How can I tell Time Machine to stop doing it's thing?? Is it possible that it is doing this?)
It is occurring to me that I may need to do the "erase everything" kind of reinstall of Leopard, and this seems pretty scary!
Can I use my Time Machine backups to restore my files after I erase and reinstall, or do I need to erase the time machine stuff on the external HD and then use something like Backup to get my files back?
I would certainly like to try everything else before I do something drastic like erase and start over! Remember, I bought a Mac to try to avoid all the messes they talk about with WIndows!
Is there any way to reinstall 10.4? I don't recall a system disk coming with the computer, so I'm not sure how to do this, but I would be perfectly happy never using Leopard again---all these problems began when I first installed it.
Sorry about the lengthy message, I am trying to be complete about describing what I've got going on.
Jim

Well, guess I didn't put my question too succinctly, or no one felt like answering, but here's what I've found in the last two days.
I had decided to do a clean reinstall of 10.5 so I erased my external HD (that I had hooked up to Time Machine) and then transferred all my important stuff to it.
I then waited until I could set aside the required 4-5 hours to reinstall the OS, pull out my hair, swear, etc.
Well, whaddaya know---since disabling Time Machine I have not had a single freeze. It was freezing 2-3 times per HOUR, but none in last 48 hours.
I'm not the expert all the others here appear to be (and apparently that is a requirement to get a question answered) but I am going to see what happens before I go any further. The day I give Time Machine another try will be a very, very cold day in August.

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