My MacBook Pro froze and I shut it down and now it's lagging and being slow?

Sorry if it's kinda long...I didn't want to leave anything out.
I have a mid 2009 MacBook Pro (10.5.8) today after being a normal MacBook Pro I was watching videos on YouTube with Google Chrome and it froze. The entire system, I couldn't move the mouse, I couldn't force quit or anything. So, after a little while, I shut it off by holding the power button. When it restarted, the startup chime came on and it got to the grey screen with the Apple and stayed there for about five minutes (it showed it was loading) and then it restarted by itself. After that it took forever to start up. It came to a blue screen where I could move the mouse around but there wasn't anything to click so I waited another few minutes and then it finally got to the screen where I log in. When I logged in, I went to the Applications folder to delete some stuff because I was thinking that maybe my low hard drive space was the cause (I'd recently delete a lot of stuff but mostly just old games I finish and no longer play. I have 9.3 GB left now) but now it isn't letting me delete anything. I can't move anything to the trash, I've tried dragging the files, using the command and detele button and anything else and it's not working, it makes the sound but then I get the pinwheel for a few minutes and no moving. I tried emptying my trash (I have one photo in there) and it's not letting me empty it saying an "unexpected error occured" (error code -50) and then I tried moving the photo onto the desktop and it won't let me do that either. It's also been lagging a lot and anything I do it freezes often with the pinwheel and then unfreezes for a while before it repeats that process. It won't let me load anything on Google Chrome and with FireFox it's saying another copy is open when there isn't.
It's really confusing me like crazy. I wanted to try deleting avast since it's the last thing I downloaded and it freezes all the time but considering my trash problem, I can't. Does anyone have any suggestions? I've tried safe mode but apparently, my MacBook Pro is against Safe Mode because I've tried about four times to get it there and it doesn't do anything but start up normally.
Oh and I hope I did this discussion thing right, I've never used it before...

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