Beachball when scrolling

Since installing lion on my 24" 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo iMac, i've been getting the beachball when trying to scroll up or down in most applications. It's happening in Safari, Firefox and iPhoto and maybe others.
The wierd thing is it seems to have only frozen the graphics. If I scroll down, get the beachball ( with no movement on the page ) and then if I do a two finger swipe to another space and back, the beachball has gone and the browser has scrolled to where I would have expected it to.
This also happen alot with screen sharing (scrolling or not), again, a two finger swipe to and from the space will momentarily clear the problem and restore normal function.
Things I've tried:
Changing the RAM modules (problem persists)
Booting from a Snow leopard disk (problem gone)
reinstalling Lion (problem persists)
uninstalling Flash (problem persists)
uninstalling perian and other video codecs (problem persists)
chaning screen saver (problem persists)

No, because the problem occurs even opening a non-form page.
I'm thinking that it might be a bigger problem with my entire system.
My 500mhz ibook, 640 MB RAM with the same system does not have this problem - Safari is fairly quick.
I'm wondering is something is eating my processing speed.

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