I did everything you suggest above.
Everything looks good as far as CPU%, there's 2.39 GB of 4GB of free space. There were no pageouts.
However when checking the console for repeated messages there were a few;
1/4/13 5:45:03.648 PM ubd[238]: objc[238]: Object 0x7fe41280e070 of class NSUserDefaults autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking - break on objc_autoreleaseNoPool() to debug
1/4/13 6:05:02.756 PM apsd[59]: Unable to bootstrap_lookup connection port for 'com.apple.AOSPushRelay.push': Unknown service name
perhaps the loginwindow is crashing every time causing my mac to freeze on me every time?
1/4/13 9:35:32.000 AM kernel[0]: Ethernet [nvenet]: Link up on en0, 100-Megabit, Full-duplex, Symmetric flow-control, Debug [796d,0000,0de1,0005,45e1,0000]
1/4/13 9:35:33.518 AM apsd[58]: CGSLookupServerRootPort: Failed to look up the port for "com.apple.windowserver.active" (1102)
1/4/13 9:35:34.795 AM WindowServer[88]: Session 256 retained (2 references)
1/4/13 9:38:18.878 AM apsd[58]: CGSLookupServerRootPort: Failed to look up the port for "com.apple.windowserver.active" (1102)
1/4/13 9:41:36.000 AM kernel[0]: Ethernet [nvenet]: Link up on en0, 100-Megabit, Full-duplex, Symmetric flow-control, Debug [796d,0000,0de1,0005,45e1,0000]
1/4/13 9:41:37.315 AM apsd[58]: CGSLookupServerRootPort: Failed to look up the port for "com.apple.windowserver.active" (1102)
1/4/13 10:27:18.458 AM mDNSResponder[39]: ERROR: handle_resolve_request bad interfaceIndex 1,2….24
1/4/13 10:49:41.589 AM firefox[309]: _GetISImageRefFromIconRefInternal: could not retain image ref 0x2616000d (err=-2580)
1/4/13 10:49:41.589 AM firefox[309]: ISGetIconFamilyFromStorage: seed mismatch for 2616000d, actual seed is d567f0e5
1 OSServices 0x0000000104994950 _ZL26ISGetIconFamilyFromStoragejPP17CIconStorageArrayPj + 140
2 OSServices 0x00000001049948aa _ISAcquireStorageRefInternal + 19
3 OSServices 0x0000000104994884 _ISAcquireStorageRef + 31
4 OSServices 0x000000010499483a _ZL25ISAcquireImageRefInternalP16OpaqueISImageRef + 49
5 OSServices 0x0000000104994bb8 _ISAcquireImageRef + 33
6 LaunchServices 0x0000000104c05096 _ZL33_GetISImageRefFromIconRefInternalP13OpaqueIconRefPP16OpaqueISImageRef + 64
7 LaunchServices 0x0000000104be6285 _CopyIconRefSystemTypeInfo + 54
8 LaunchServices 0x0000000104be60c4 LSSharedFileListItemCopyIconRef + 628
9 DesktopServicesPriv 0x0000000102490e99 _ZN7TFSInfo10InitializeEhP29OpaqueLSSharedFileListItemRef + 757
10 DesktopServicesPriv 0x000000010247f841 _ZN19TFSInfoSynchronizer13FetchChildrenEv + 1435
11 DesktopServicesPriv 0x000000010247b36a _ZN5TNode19SynchronizeChildrenEjR16TNodeEventPtrSet + 318
12 DesktopServicesPriv 0x00000001024785cd _ZN5TNode10HandleSyncEj + 2629
13 DesktopServicesPriv 0x000000010248bd58 _ZN5TNode10HandleSyncERK11TCountedPtrI9TNodeTaskERK8TNodePtr + 42
14 DesktopServicesPriv 0x00000001024683d7 _ZN5TNode17HandleNodeRequestERK11TCountedPtrI9TNodeTaskERKS0_I17TVolumeSyncThre adE + 833
15 DesktopServicesPriv 0x00000001024db4e7 __block_global_1 + 82
16 DesktopServicesPriv 0x0000000102468040 _Z18ExceptionSafeBlockU13block_pointerFvvE + 12
17 DesktopServicesPriv 0x0000000102467fe1 __PostNodeTaskRequest_block_invoke_0 + 91
18 libdispatch.dylib 0x000000010409cf01 _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 15
19 libdispatch.dylib 0x00000001040990b6 _dispatch_client_callout + 8
20 libdispatch.dylib 0x000000010409a47f _dispatch_queue_drain + 235
21 libdispatch.dylib 0x000000010409a2f1 _dispatch_queue_invoke + 52
22 libdispatch.dylib 0x000000010409a1c3 _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 249
23 libsystem_c.dylib 0x000000010411acab _pthread_wqthread + 404
24 libsystem_c.dylib 0x0000000104105171 start_wqthread + 13
1/4/13 12:21:05.155 PM CVMServer[101]: Check-in to the service com.apple.cvmsCompAgent_x86_64 failed. This is likely because you have either unloaded the job or the MachService has the ResetAtClose attribute specified in the launchd.plist. If present, this attribute should be removed.
1/4/13 12:21:05.417 PM CVMServer[101]: Check-in to the service com.apple.cvmsCompAgent_x86_64 failed. This is likely because you have either unloaded the job or the MachService has the ResetAtClose attribute specified in the launchd.plist. If present, this attribute should be removed.
1/4/13 3:05:03.657 PM mDNSResponder[39]: ERROR: handle_resolve_request bad interfaceIndex 12
Not sure what to do, any help and guidance from here would be most helpful. Thanks for the help!!