WindowServer causing MBP to freeze/crash?

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For some time now my 15" MacBook Pro has randomly frooze or restarted itself without warning. It does this while running all different applications from Photoshop to just Safari. I have checked Console and this is what it says right before a freeze:
12/28/10 8:38:14 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[148] (com.apple.Kerberos.renew.plist[182]) Exited with exit code: 1
12/28/10 8:38:14 AM com.parallels.vm.prl_pcproxy[186] QKqueueFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: open: No such file or directory
12/28/10 8:38:14 AM com.parallels.vm.prl_pcproxy[186] QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /Library/Managed Preferences
12/28/10 8:38:15 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[148] (0x1001032d0.mach_init.switchboard.sh) Failed to check-in!
12/28/10 8:38:20 AM CleanMyMacHelperTool[225] Mounted devices (
"/Volumes/clucius"
)
12/28/10 8:38:20 AM CleanMyMacHelperTool[225] Wont clean clucius because disk image
12/28/10 8:38:20 AM CleanMyMacHelperTool[225] CleanMyMacHelperTool started as volume cleaner with cleanTrashes 1 cleanMacOSJunk 1 cleanWinJunk 1
12/28/10 8:38:20 AM CleanMyMacHelperTool[225] Mounted devices (
"/Volumes/clucius"
)
12/28/10 8:38:20 AM CleanMyMacHelperTool[225] Wont clean clucius because disk image
12/28/10 8:38:20 AM CleanMyMacHelperTool[225] CleanMyMacHelperTool exited...
12/28/10 8:38:21 AM com.apple.WindowServer[67] Tue Dec 28 08:38:21 d118-75-133-206.nap.wideopenwest.com WindowServer[67] <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.

Any help on what to do would be greatly appreciated!
 
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CleanMyMac? Why? I would remove that app and see if your problem goes away.
 
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Well, it was the last thing that ran before you had a problem so I would start there. Why do you think you need CleanMyMac? Macs are not Windows and most of those things can be done with a simple reboot.
 
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Okay, I uninstalled CleanMyMac. Is there anything else that could cause a MacBook Pro to freeze/ restart randomly?
 
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I don't think so at this point. I would reboot and play with it for a while to see how it goes. If it doesn't freeze then you found the culprit. The problem with things like this is that troubleshooting is hit and miss.
 

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