Apps won't open and computer is slow to start up

My mac book is screwed up. About a week ago I noticed that everything on my computer started working extremely slowly. So, I ran a verify disk in disk utility. I got a message that my start up disk had an error. So, I started up from the install disk and ran repair disk in the utility program. Once that finished I got a message that there were no problems found. So, nothing changed still slow. I decided to start up in safe mode and see if that fixed things. Well, after starting safe mode and then restarting regularly it was still very slow to start up and on top of that no applications, except for Mail and Safari, will open. Also, I have tried to back up the few files I have that were not backed up already and I keep getting error messages and can't move files. So, what do I do now? I live quite a long way from the nearest mac genius bar and would like to fix this here if possible. Any suggestions?

Welcome to Apple Discussions.
It's sounds like there's some corruption on your hard disk that Repair Disk fixes but then returns.
Be sure you drive is not overly full. Rule of thumb would be over 85%.
Then download DriveGenius you can use the tools there and the surface scan to diagnose. If the surface scan shows bad blocks, you'll need to replace the drive sooner or later and I'd suggest sooner.
-mj

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