Will Genius bar help?

I continue to have a problem with my MAC Pro tower. The bottom line is that it freezes up after inactivity, and I have to shut it down using the power button. Then I have to use my Snow Leopard disk to run the disk utility to clear up the problem "Invalid Volume Directory Count" (can't do it with the regular disk utility). This has been going on for a while, even deleted, formatted and restored my drive, but it is still happening. I have never done so, but does this sound like something that could be taken care of by the Genius Bar? This is my first MAC, and have always had in house service on my PC's, very convenient. I cannot generate this problem, it has a mind of its own. To use the Genius Bar, I would have to bring my tower to the store (not a lightweight), and, based on the nature of the beast, would probably have to leave it. Everything else seems to working fine (monitor, keyboard, mouse, tablet, etc.) so I am hoping that I would only have to bring in the tower. Has anybody had this experience? Can I call my Apple Store to find out what I would need to bring in, or would they tell me when I make a reservation?
Thank you for any suggestions an/or direction.

Buy Alsoft Disk Warrior and run that from a small partition.
Clone your system with SuperDuper.
I would learn how to do system maintenance.
Test your RAM. Memtest/Rember and also run the Apple Hardware Test off the OEM DVD.
You may need to start fresh on a newly formatted hard drive. Also any printer, devices and look for anything that isn't compatible with 10.6.x. And don't restore anything until the problem goes away; and, you have cloned your system to another drive or disk image.
Apple Disk First Aid is not as strong or as reliable as Alsoft's.

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