About to give up with macintosh.
Okay,
I am sick and tired of this.
From the time I started this thread to about now, I have been dealing with apple support and wasting a whole bunch of time on the phone and lugging this brick into stores.
Heres what I've done so far:
Troubleshooted (shot?) with Ramshidad on the phone for about a total of 20 hours to no avail
We ended up clearing caches, running diags, Archive and install, I replaced the Apple hard drive after they sent me a new one, I've done about 3-4 erase and installs, (one of which I went 1 week without third party software)
Finally I spoke to a manager and he recommended I bring the machine into an Apple authorized service center. I toted the big mammoth through the mall to my nearest Genius Bar (not as easy as you think) spoke with the genius and I was unable to replicate the issues which always happen to me
(Applications unexpectedly quit, I have about a 35% success rate with authoring DVDs without something freezing or an error occurring, applications bounce on their dock for days, I loose work due to things freezing beachballing and quitting, ITS JUST A PAIN!)
So he was unable to see what has been happening so he just told them to run a diagnostic test on it, which happened to take them 5 days!
This is a hassle, and I can stand it no longer. I am at the point where I utterly hate this computer and I want it out of my hands. I would like Apple to replace it with something else. I have spent enough time wasted troubleshooting this and loosing data and I am sick of it.
My final plea here is to ask for people obliging advice as to how I should go about getting this machine replaced.
I can mention that I am fed up with them, and I am in the market for a new laptop, but I need some suggestions.