

Next I took my computer to the store and saw a mac genius who told me my hard drive was failing. After doing this, the problems persisted although my computer was no longer super slow starting up.

I can't remember exactly which error messages I received but I attempted to repair the disk. I called apple support and was led through using disk utility to verify/repair disk permissions booting with the installer disk. The problems seemed to be a bit random and unrelated to each other, (computer would take a long time to start up, iPhone would not show up in iPhoto, iChat application would quit unexpectedly each time I tried opening it, my computer began running really slowly, system update would not work, and the installer application would quit unexpectedly when I attempted to install a.

I began having various problems with my macbook a couple of months ago.
