Unable to restart and other oddness.

I'm currently on my 3rd install of Leopard on this laptop hoping that something would change but It hasn't.
Once I'm logged in on my account I'm fine until I try and restart or shutdown. I'll look like I'm going to do either but it goes to the time machine background only with the spinner going, but it just stays there forever. I'm forced to do a hard reset. I've found that if I log out and then tell it to shutdown I'm fine. A bit annoying but as long as I remember I don't have to hold the power button down.
Does anyone know why this may be happening ?
currently I have growlhelperapp , quicksilver, airport disk agent, and synergyd running on login. hopefully that helps.
2nd odd thing is I've had crashes from the wireless driver at least once per install so far that has required me holding the power down and I've sent a bug report to apple.
3rd odd thing has only happened once but I'm posting it in case It happens again. Terminal.app said 'PAM Error (line 396): System error' whenever I or any other user on the system tried to use it. A reboot fixed that.
I'm kind of wondering if being 5th in line at the KOP Apple store was such a good idea. Performance of bf2142 tonight will be the determining factor.
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I think I figured out the restart problem finally. I noticed that .mac sync was swirling on restart attempt. So I undid my mac account and trashed the file it left on my desktop. It restarted properly twice. I then reenabled .mac sync and tried it again after It created the iDisk and was fully synced. I was able to reboot properly twice after that. I'll post here again if I encounter this issue again or figure out anything on the other 2 issues.

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