Mitch, sorry for the dropped mac, I have had a similar experience with my ibook, tough as hell and three years later its begging for an upgrade to macbook pro!
It does sound potentially as though there is a loose memory chip in there causing you the slow file transfer, or crashing altogether.
Check under system profiler, to see what hardware is running, hopefully it is merely a case of unscrewing and jiggling ram back into the slot or maybe buying a RAM upgrade.
Cheers G
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