Applications not quitting

Hi Folks,
I recently upgraded my venerable iMac 2.16GHz, 1GB RAM from Tiger to Snow Leopard (10.6.4). Since then I have found that almost any application I run will respond normally until I try to quit it. At that point it seems to quit but the little glowing dot under the application icon in the Dock remains there. Also if I choose Force Quit the panel appears and has the name of the errant application listed as available to be force quit.
I have looked at Activity Monitor and it doesn't seem to have anything with the relevant name listed as using resources but I am not familiar enough with this stuff to be certain about what this means.This happens on all applications I have tried and multiple restarts, seem to have had little or no effect. If anyone has any gems of wisdom, hints, tips or general advice I would be delighted to hear them. As always, thanks for listening.

Hi leroydouglas
Thanks for the reply. Just for the record I've been using Macs since 1991. The command-Q keystroke is one of my personal favourites.
I have tried the following to quit the various apps:
CMD-Q while in the desired application
Choosing Quit "Application Name" from the Application Menu
Choosing Quit from the pop-up menu in the Dock
all to no avail.

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