5.5 hangs when selecting objects

I run a mid-2010 Macbook Pro with Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz and 8gb RAM.
When I click on an object - image, text frame - or page in the Pages panel - there is a big spike in CPU usage (e.g. 3% to 60%) and the whole machine hangs for about 5 seconds before the frame indicates it has been selected. It doesn't do this in CS3 or CS4, and didn't do it in CS5.5 when I first installed it, but it did do it before I upgraded from 4 to 8gb RAM, and before I moved from Snow Leopard to Lion, so it doesn't seem to be an OS/memory problem.
I know there have been similar posts, e.g. http://forums.adobe.com/message/2885091, but none of the suggestions has worked. I have:
- turned off Preflight and Redraw
- rebooted
- re-installed the program
- reset preferences
- reformatted the hard disk and installed the new OS
- quit all other program, closed other ID docs, and ensured RAM and CPU were not overused
- kept at least 15gb free space on the startup disk
- tested it on large docs (200 pages, lots of images with complex effects) and on tiny ones (one page, one small text frame)
The behaviour remains about the same whatever I do.
Acrobat X has been even worse, e.g. selecting a page or opening a tab or even opening a drop-down menu takes 5-10 seconds. It has been like that since the first install, and re-installing has made no difference. (One day it worked well, but I couldn't figure out what I was doing different.) Acrobat 9 used to work fine, but now it is behaving like X.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Well I'm pretty sure it did the same under Snow Leopard; Acrobat X was certainly just as bad.
I do happen to have EPSes (and PNGs) in the file I'm working on now as it's an imported Word doc created by someone else. But it does the same in docs with no images at all.
What would be the best way of converting the EPS files to .jpg? Bridge/Camera Raw doesn't seem to be able to convert them at all. Preview and Photoshop won't even open them, saying they can't parse the PostScript. I can do them outside Adobe by batch converting with Adapter or somesuch, but it breaks the links with the files so I'd have to spend ages relinking them.
By font management I assume you mean opening the .indd file from within a package containing a 'Document fonts' folder. I wasn't doing that most of the time but have just tried it now and it makes no difference. The current fonts I am using are:
adler.ttf
Bookman Old Style
Calibri Bold.ttf
Calibri Italic.ttf
Calibri.ttf
Cambria Bold Italic.ttf
Cambria Bold.ttf
Cambria Italic.ttf
Cambria.ttf
Century Gothic
fennariolight.ttf
markingpenheavyregular.ttf
MinionPro-Regular.otf
MyriadPro-Regular.otf
Symbol.ttf
Tahoma Bold.ttf
Tahoma.ttf
TektonPro-Bold.otf
tektonpro-regular.otf
Times New Roman Bold Italic.ttf
Times New Roman Bold.ttf
Times New Roman Italic.ttf
Times New Roman.ttf
Times.dfont
Verdana Bold.ttf
Verdana Italic.ttf
Verdana.ttf
How do I check if they are corrupt?
Anyway, that wouldn't affect all documents would it, just ones using the corrupt fonts?

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