Slow Mac Book late 2008

Hi All,
My wife has a late 2008 Mac Book 13" it has 45.06GB free memory (after i got rid of a lot of unwanted apps etc..) There is 65GB of the 'Other" on the hard drive, basically everytime she opens anything we get the pin wheel and everything opens really slow, I have run disk utility and we had some issues that were repaired upon further testing.
I ran it again today as it is painfully slow and we have some SUID files come up quite a lot infact all seem to be language files maybe as they all have either Japanese Italin in the link etc..
Im not sure where to go next as I have deleted and backed up a lot of unwanted Mpegs and Movie files freeing up space, any other suggestions would be great, unfortinatly she doesnt have the original CD it came with either
Many Thanks Guys!

See this FAQ on how to manage the pin wheel.

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