you definitely should go with an UPS (there are relatively cheap one's out there like at CostCo) as they will shield you from brown-outs and spikes alike.
And the problems sure sound like they could have been caused by instabilities in your house power supply. And today's cheaper power supplies used in name brands are not exactly helping to mitigate this, either.
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