All apps running slow in one account and not the others on my iMac

I have iMac (intel) 20" with Lion 10.7.3 with 4 GB of RAM. The problems is that  one of my accounts all the applications run very very slow.
This account is one of two admin accounts. None of the other accounts have this problems. Does anyone have a suggest of what I can do.
I have tried reloading Safari, thinking it might be related to the recent flashback virus. I event downloaded a script from Mashable and they indicated that there was no Flashback Virus on my iMac. I also download that latest update from Apple for the JVM
So my questions is what is causing only one of my user accounts to be very very slow and it seems to be affecting all the applications.

Most likely corrupt or conflicting preferences files. While logged into the good admin account, backup the bad account's folder, delete the bad account, selecting the save data option (which stores the data in /Users/Deleted Users/ as a disk image), recreate the bad account using the same username/password combo, log out and back into the recreated original account. If the problem's solved, open the saved data dmg file in /Users/Deleted Users/, open the /Library/Preferences/ folder from the saved data, open the current /Users/restored account/Library/Preferences/ folder, and slowly copy plist files from the saved data folder to the current one that don't exist in it. Log out and back in to ensure there's no conflict and things still work correctly. Resolving conflicts or identifying corrupt plist files is a laborious process. Good luck.

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