All I See Are Beach-Balls

All of a sudden I have been experiencing a lot of the infamous spinning beach-balls, along with trouble booting several programs. I am using a macbook core duo with 2gb of ram.
Safari is one of my problems recently I get the beach-ball while doing simple tasks such as opening a new tab, or fill out forms. Quicktime does this when I change my view.
Numbers takes about 10 minutes to load and if I try to open a template I get the beach-ball. I have not been able to open a numbers template. I have also been trapped in the beach-ball when attempting to access the numbers menu bar.
Excel is one of the programs that just wont load. The last week I have not been able to boot up excel. With this one i don't even get the beach-ball I get stuck in the watch.
I have run the disk utilities, scanned the hardware, ran onyx, after still experiencing the problem I ran onyx again and cleaned the caches still nothing. I have checked the activity monitor and cannot see anything really draining my system. Can anyone help me I have to start school again soon and I really need my office apps to work and I need them to work at a reasonable speed.

This fixed it for me once:
Run Disk Utility but from your Mac OS X install DVD (insert DVD, System Preferences, Startup Disk, Select the DVD.......... when the first menu pops up wanting to install the OS, click Utility at the top of your screen and choose Disk Utility) Fully repair your disk. It fixed it once for me. The second time it could never fix 2 problems no matter how many times I ran the repair so I had to format and re-install.
I truly hope the simple repair fixes it. Some repairs cannot be done while you run an OS from the disk you're trying to repair

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