On Oct 31, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Clark Martin wrote:

Does anyone know if my RAM and HDD swap would do this?

Spotlight re-indexing the HDDs?

Spotlight re-indexing will show as "mdworker" in the Activity Monitor processes list, and often it can be a runaway process. Next time it happens, open Activity Monitor and sort by CPU usage to see what's hogging the CPU and causing the situation.

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