Things Freezing and not Force Quitting

Lately, some of my applications are freezing up. One is Final Cut Pro, but my MS Word also has in the last few days. When I force quit, the application closes, but if you look on the dock, it still has a white dot next to it like it is open so in order to restart I have to shut down/restart the computer.
Also, I thought I would use Disk Utility to see if there were permission problems but when I try to verify permissions it takes forever and then it says it takes 15 minutes but an hour later it is still going with no sign of progress -- it appears to have frozen but the computer doesn't say that "application is not responding."
Please help!! Am on deadline!!!

2. I don't have disk warrior but I assume I just buy the general package online? Then once I have it on my computer I assume its obvious as to how to run it from my external drive?
First run the Disk Repair I linked to in my last post. Tell us what errors it reports. Permission Errors are relatively unimportant right now.
Then if you need to, Just buy the latest version they make..which is DiskWarrior 4.1.
If Disk Utility can't repair your drives directory, this is the way to go (It would help us to report the errors DU says though!).
DiskWarrior can be run by booting up on it's disk and repairing from it. Beware, it takes a long time to bootup....hold the c key till it comes up.
It runs faster if you install it on one drive and use it on another that has OSX on it.Don't worry, it's easy to run.
At any rate, anyone who wants a dependable Mac should own a copy of DiskWarrior!
DALE

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