Back to G5 speeds

When I first got my iMac Intel things were very fast, Safari would load in one bounce, Mail would load in half a bounce.
After a few weeks and frankly its no faster than the outgoing single 1.6 powermac, safari frequently has the beachball of death for no reason what so ever and takes five bounces to open.
Mail is flaky and all in all it just seems that a new OSX install is super then a few days later its a dog.
Also if I look in the console (which takes 6 bounces to open) front row seems to be reporting crashes left right and centre, even though it appears to work. Although I notice after using front row the computer can very iften be very unstable.
What can I do to sort this situation. The rather prosaic suggestion of fixing permissions does nothing.

I agree with trying a new user.
Also, I would run Apple Hardware Test to be certain there isn't some issue. And an SMU reset might be needed (can't hurt):
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301733

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