Applications halting for a few seconds...

Since Upgrading to Snow Leopard from Leopard, both myself and my girlfriend (Macbook Late 2008; Macbook Pro Early 2007) have had problems with the applications.
The Apps sometimes halt for a few seconds (up to 10-20 seconds) after performing an action. At this point the colourful wheel spins and the application is unresponsive.
It happens not frequently, but often enough to notice. It happens in most apps, Safari, iTunes, iPhoto, iCal, Firefox... In fact it just happened whilst I was just typing then!
The unresponsiveness is unusual to say the least.
Both have had problems with Snow Leopard 10.6; 10.6.1 and 10.6.2
Is this a common problem at the moment with Snow Leopard not being fully stable yet?

Create a new User go to System Preferences >> Accounts >> "+" (make it an admin acct) and test the apps in this new account, if they work the problem is isolated to your User and not systemwide.
-mj

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