Safari on Snow Leopard slow

I have loved safari 4 and have used it dedicatedly on leopard with ad block for the last 1 year. However, since I upgraded to snow leopard, and not having ad block, I feel safari is extremely slow. Is anyone else experiencing such a speed drop?

I have the same issue. Pages that were nearly instant before are now exceedingly slow (www.google.com, for example, takes about 7 seconds). I have several other computers on the same network that are either running Leopard or Windows that don't have this problem, so it's not a DNS issue. I've also verified that my network connection isn't saturated.
I've tried the following:
* Resetting Safari
* Emptying the cache
* Repairing permissions
* Deleting all subfolders of ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari
* Deleting Downloads.plist, History.plist, and LastSession.plist
* Removing everything from both the system and account copies of the InputMethods and Internet Plugins folders
This should essentially be a clean install of Safari, but it is still exceedingly slow. Note that it's not consistent: it will load a page quickly then, 5 seconds later, the same page will take a very long time to load.
Sometimes, most of the items on the page will come in nearly instantaneously, but suddenly the page will stop loading for a good 5 to 10 seconds. Once that time elapses, the rest of the page suddenly downloads.
Does anyone have any ideas?

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