beast have you tried changing the oil? and maybe changing underwear?
just joking, it sounds like you might have a bug, or cookie in your
system you picked up, i did not have that problem but mine would
keep locking up, so i bought a virus sweep and installed more
memory and i have not had anymore problems, just like ignition
problems they all differ, but cookies are picked up when you download
or follow a thread to a website and nowdays cookies will make your
computer do weird things, also if you have'nt, defrag your system
good luck
oh, also, your processor might be going out, don't know how old
your system is and even brand new chips go out, it will make
your programs lock up or take long to registar
good luck 8)