Beach ball of death after Mountain Lion install

I never saw the beach ball until after I installed Mountain Lion. After this started, I installed an VirusBarrier X6, which helped clean up the machine. I also ran the First Aid utility, to no avail. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Arthur, you are my new hero! There is a lot of info on the link you sent. Most of the things regarding the disk I already did ... to no avail. But ... just now I did reset the PRAM and SMC ... and no more beach balls!!! I've only been up and running for 15 minutes since the reset, but so far so good!
Anyone else having the same problem: resetting your PRAM and SMC may be the answer!!!

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964?viewlocale=en_US

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My woeful story.
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I was convinced it was a hardware problem, however, I though I would try a fresh OSX install from the install disc just to rule out software. This fixed the problem and I spent the next 48 hours reinstalling everything manually.
Everything was going fine until last night when I ran the final mac update and installed Java 4, Safari and an HP printer update. The weird thing was that 2 separate check boxes came up for Java 4 that were exactly the same so I unchecked on of them.
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I then downloaded the "stand alone" installers for Java and safari on my other computer. When I tried to instal them on my macbook pro I would get to the install screen but the computer would crash when I pressed the install button.
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SMC RESET
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
Shut down the computer.
Unplug the computer's power cord and ALL peripherals.
Wait 15 seconds.
Attach the computers power cable.
Wait another 5 seconds and press the power button to turn on the computer.
The 5 second timing is important to a successful reset.
PRAM RESET
Zap the PRAM
Shut down the computer.
Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
Turn on the computer.
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Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
Release the keys.

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More microchips than sense,
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10064960&#10064960
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10063772&#10063772
This was also an intermittent issue in Leopard:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9756242&#9756242
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Feedback time:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
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John

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however
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