Blank White Screens After Installing Lion in Software

Before I start, I have a Macbook Pro 5,1 -- 2.66Ghz Core2Duo with 8GB of RAM, 500GB 7200rpm HDD, and an nVidia 9600GT M Graphics card
I installed Lion. This install was an UPGRADE from 10.6.8. Most of my apps arent working at all. Adobe CS 5.5 Master Collection, Final Cut Pro, Ableton Live, and even Time Machine.
They all just open up and give me a blank white screen (literally, a window, and instead of there being stuff inside the window its just a big giant WHITE BOX OF NOTHING). Time machine actually shows me the selected finder window but i couldnt select any older time machine dates.
Additionally I tried dragging icons off the dock, and it froze up my entire machine just by dragging them off the dock. I had to right click on icons to remove them.
I finally booted up into the "Recovery HD" and recovered my Time Machine backup to Snow Leopard 10.6.8 that I was using before.
I would very much like to use Lion, but it seems to have alot of problems with my machine. Should I do a completely fresh install maybe?
Any other solutions?

I have reverted to a backup from yesterday in which Lion was first installed and ran without problems. But this time, the windows of my apps were still white.
I also tried creating a new user account, thinking that there was a chance that it was a conflict with a piece of 3rd party software. Not that I can rule out software conflicts, but I still had the same problems.
So I'm now reverting to Snow Leopard. Ugh…
At least the "Recovery Partition" is pretty cool ;)
-Chris

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