First, thanks to several of you for your input and at least commisseration with my suddenly unreliable five-year old first generation PowerMac running Leopard (random freeze ups, very difficult blue-screen freezes during reboot, that sort of thing). I tried every one of your suggestions I could possible do. Those included running hardware tests on the memory, hard drives, and logic board and doing an "archive and install" of the Leopard OS. After all hardware checking out fine, I went ahead and replaced the main hard drive with a fresh new one, using Carbon Copy Cloner to create the new drive contents. It took just three reboots to return to freezing and tough restarts. My problem was back and I was beginning to think it was the dreaded logic board failure, causing my first dead Mac after owning more than ten different models since the 512K "Fat Mac.". I then tried one last suggestion, that Leopard was basically incompatible with my PowerMac G5 1.6 single processor hardware for some reason. I went back to Tiger and now after nearly a week working hard to make it freeze up, nary a hiccup (or hiccough if you prefer). I think we've solved the problem.
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