Unresponsive after CD burn

Hello All,
Anyone else seen this problem?
I took a lot of photos on vacation, and am burning backup copies on CD. After I successfully burn about 100 shots onto a CD, the Mini becomes unresponsive.
Move the mouse, get the spinning beach ball. Try to quit, open, or move anything, no response. Try to control click, nothing. Try to force quit with option apple escape, nothing. Walk away for 5 - 10 minutes, the fan slows down, full function returns, and the force quit window is sitting there.
Is this a heat related defect in the Mini that I have to live with, or is there a software issue involved here? The fan does work and changes speed as needed.
Thanks in advance.
Dr. Rock

Hi BD,
Thanks for the reply.
Disk Utility reported no problem. I also ran the S.M.A.R.T. test from Onyx which also reported no problem.
My report to you now on readouts from Activity Monitor must be prefaced with the knowledge that the Mini is now running fine. I can burn another photo CD later and see what Activity Monitor looks like after the next finder freeze episode. As of right now,
Threads: 230
Processes : 51
% Idle: 93
Of 2.00 GB Ram
Free: 1.15 GB
Wired: 219.9 MB
Active: 425.4 MB
Inactive: 228.3 MB
Used: 871.4 MB
Space Utilized: 12.83 GB
Space Free: 66.86 GB
Page outs: 0 bytes
I doubled the factory RAM up to 2 GB a couple of months ago. There was almost no dust in there, but I cleaned it out thoroughly anyway since I was in there. Plenty of airflow.
I don't understand what I'm looking at in the console log, but there are several repeating messages, copied below. Note that the Mini froze when I finished burning a photo CD and tried to quit iPhoto. IPhoto was also slow or unresponsive before I tried to quite it. My iPhoto library is on an external drive if that matters.
This message repeats a lot. The number after iPhoto [ ] changes. There are a zillion of these:
9/26/12 12:35:52 PM          iPhoto[196]          *** Break on _NSLockError() to debug.
9/26/12 12:35:57 PM          iPhoto[196]          *** -[NSLock unlock]: lock (<NSLock: 0x14aefb10> '(null)') unlocked from thread which did not lock it
And a ton of these too:
9/26/12 12:20:20 PM          com.apple.launchd[1]          (com.apple.SystemStarter) Failed to count the number of files in "/System/Library/StartupItems": No such file or directory
And this block repeats a few times. The watcher numbers differ:
9/25/12 12:07:22 PM          com.apple.notifyd[11]          EV_DELETE failed for file watcher 24
I've installed the temperature monitor. Looks like the upper limit is 212ºF on the CPU Core. Current reading is 138ºF.
Hopefully this is the information you are looking for.
Thanks much,
Dr. Rock

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