What is happening with my Macs these days???

Okay, two different Macs, both loaded with TONS of multi-media apps and supporting tech. One is a dual G5 and the other a 17" Macbook Pro. Both with the latest updates of everything I actively use.
So, here are the issues I'm SUFFERING lately. MAIL: Crashes consistently. Almost on every second or third new mail or reply I invoke. Which is subsequently LOSING EMAILS on every crash. Vital emails are going into binary limbo land never to be found again. Please don't tell me I have to go back to using Entourage?!? iLife 08: Had to read through these forums along with a bunch of other users to finally weed out a font issue preventing the opening of the Garageband application and a theme issue keeping iDVD to open. Now I am with less fonts and themes just to be able to launch these apps. The most recent and almost most time consuming issue I'm SUFFERING is Spotlight. I've become quite reliant on using search features both in Spotlight proper and within the Spotlight search fields in applications, particularly within the Finder. Now it doesn't even find files when I do an isolated search on an EXACT filename and direct it right to the folder that the file resides.
What gives? I've been a Mac user for a very long time and can't quite recall such a slew of bugs.
I'm sure I will get people telling me to check the permissions and verify discs etc. I've done tons of this over the past couple of months. I've even implemented the use of such "tools" as Disc Warrior and TechTool Pro. These problems persist!
I'm tired of this Windows like world that I've been thrust into so if anyone has any fixes I am all ears!!!
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Have you tried creating a new account, name it "test" and see how your apps work in that User acct? (That will tell if your problem is systemwide or limited to your User acct.) This account is just for test, do nothing further with it.
Open System Preferences >> Accounts >> "+" make it an admin account.
Let us know and we'll troubleshoot this further.
-mj
[email protected]

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