Bluetooth Issues + Snowballing Problems

So, the first sign of trouble for me was when my bluetooth mouse stopped working this morning. At first I thought it was the mouse's fault, because my computer (MBP) gave no indication that bluetooth wasn't working.
When I tried re-pairing my mouse, the setup assistant showed that it was searching, but no devices were found. Then I tried connecting to my phone, and it said there was a problem connecting. I tried other people's phones, and still didn't work. I paired my mouse to my friend's computer just fine.
I googled, and found some things that said repairing disk permissions and then restarting can get the bluetooth working again, so I tried to repair disk permissions. It sat for 15 minutes getting the permissions without even starting the repair, so I canceled it, because any other time I have repaired permissions it has taken no longer than 2 minutes to start.
Then I tried going into the bluetooth system preference pane (before I used the drop-down bluetooth menu to get to the setup assistant) and I get the beachball of death until I force-quit system preferences.
I restarted my computer and when I logged in, I noticed that there was no clock in the menubar. I went into Date & Time and turn on "display clock in menubar" but whenever I exit the preference pane and go back, the box is again unchecked. Displaying the clock in the menubar refuses to stay checked.
Then I tried using the dropdown bluetooth menu in the menubar again, and I got the beachball of death for that. Now when I hover over any system-related menubar item (battery indicator, bluetooth, sound, time machine), I get the beachball of death again. I've let it sit for quite a while, and those menubar items are still not working, even after relaunching the finder.
So... any help would be appreciated, since I appear to be sort of screwed at the moment.
(Also, backing up and restoring, or restoring to an old time machine is NOT an option.)

I had the same problems this morning. First, I checked Activity Monitor; several processes (including Bluetooth) were in "not responding" state. After some Google searches, I ran Disk Utility to repair permissions. It appears to be fine now.

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