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Alrighty, I recently downloaded cocktail, and did an Apple Hardware Test because I was having force reboot issues and I wanted to make sure it wasn't a hardware problem. Now, it's been about 2 days, and I haven't had to force reboot because of an application freezing, but I just noticed something new. Before I installed cocktail, it used to take my computer about 10 minutes to start up after I pressed the power button (the less peripherals I had, the less time it took). It would spend a few minutes on a screen with a flashing globe, then a few minutes on a screen with the finder face flashing interchangeably with a question mark, then it would go to the gray screen with the apple on it, then to the login window. I turned on my computer this morning, with my USB printer cable and ethernet cable plugged in, and it went straight to the gray screen with the apple, then to the login window. Is this a good thing or bad thing?

As far as the flashing question mark and globe icons are concerned, your computer had lost track of its startup volume and was searching through the possibilities. The globe icon indicates that it is looking for a network to start from and the question mark indicates that it is looking for an OS X volume. To fix this, if you haven't already, go to System Preferences > Startup Disk and reselect your internal HD as the startup volume.
From what you have described, this issue does seem to have corrected itself, and the faster start up is what one would normally expect. I think that you have absolutely no reason to reinstall your system.

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