Apps taking longer to startup and use

In my main OSX startup profile some apps Office, sometimes Safari, and others are taking longer than normal to startup and use. I booted into my administrator account and everything there is speedy so this appears to be a software issue somewhere. I am going to rebuild disk permissions, but I don think that will do the trick. It also takes years to perform this task in Snow Leopard. Tiger could do the job in half the time it takes Snow Leopard. Anyone got other suggestions to try? I am going to do some googling.
Thanks,
John

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