Trouble shutting MBP down

I've been having a problem lately when I try to shutdown my MBP. It starts to shutdown and then it gets stuck on the blue screen with the spinning dashed circle just sitting there spinning and spinning. I've checked the disk, verified and repaired everything but it still doesn't want to shutdown. It sat for an hour the other night and I finally just had to hold the power button down.
Any ideas as to what this could be?

I have a late 2007 MBP that I purchased in January 2008 (it came with Leopard pre-installed). The last couple of months of 2010 I started having issues with it not wanting to shut down sometimes (maybe 5 or 6 times a month that would happen). Is your issue every time you try to shut down or only some of the times?
My thinking is that the computer had been through 3 years of updates, installing software, uninstalling some of it, changing printers, scanners, etc. so there was a good chance software was left behind that at times was causing issues with shutdown (and perhaps slowing things down in general).
The end of December I decided to wipe the hard drive clean, perform a clean install of Snow Leopard and see if that would clear things up. I did an image backup of my existing hard drive (used Disk Utility and saved the image to a .dmg file), then wiped out the drive and installed Snow Leopard (retail disk does allow a new install). I did end up copying my previous home directory to the newly installed OS disk and luckily did not have any issues from old / obsolete preference files or other items in my home directory tree.
I have not had an occurrence of the machine not shutting down since that time. This was definitely a shotgun approach, but I wasn't sure how else to attack 3 years of software changes on the machine.
I made a list of all my applications and utilities before starting and installed the latest version of the ones I was still using.
Overall, the backup, wiping, re-install took a few hours and it was a couple of days of trying to do all the things I use the computer for to make sure I wasn't missing anything. In the end, the machine is more stable, shuts down reliably. I was hoping for some increase in speed, but can't say there is any noticeable speed difference.

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