Activity monitor keeps hanging and hanging..

Hi all there!
I've the problem that this application just wont work, whatever I'm doing if I start the Activity monitor the application opens nothing happens and a few seconds later the bleachball of death appears and the application just freezes and becomes unresponsive, I've to force the exit to close the app
any idea on how to get rid of the problem?
here's the report of the console
+11/12/09 20.58.10 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.ActivityMonitor) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds+
+11/12/09 20.58.20 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.ActivityMonitor[628]) posix_spawn("/Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app/Contents/MacOS/activitymonitord", ...): No such file or directory+
+11/12/09 20.58.20 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.ActivityMonitor[628]) Exited with exit code: 1+
+11/12/09 20.58.20 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.ActivityMonitor) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds+
+11/12/09 20.58.30 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.ActivityMonitor[629]) posix_spawn("/Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app/Contents/MacOS/activitymonitord", ...): No such file or directory+
+11/12/09 20.58.30 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.ActivityMonitor[629]) Exited with exit code: 1+
+11/12/09 20.58.30 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.ActivityMonitor) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds+
this messages just keep going on and on..
many thanks!!
cheers

scareface2 wrote:
thanks to both for the suggestions
You are very welcome.
@dovn
I red the page, the fact is that I'm not able to figure out what's causing the problem
the application freezes in any occasion, even when the mac was just turned on..
could it be that it's somehow in conflict with an other process running in background?!
Sometime conflict occur, but I doubt with Activity Monitor.
I was thinking of maybe I could just insert the OSX application disk that came with the macbook and trying that way reinstalling the app?!
Did your machine come with Snow? Anyway, I would do a repair install of Sno by installing Sno over Sno as in an upgrade install. Such an install, while usually very safe, still is an install so be appropriated backed up if you proceed. You will need to reinstall 10.6.1 and 10.6.2 after the repair install. Do so using only the [10.6.2 combo updater|http://support.apple.com/kb/DL959].This approach might fix any corruption leading to your problem.

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