Brand-new, loaded i7 iMac is sluggish. What could be the problem?

My company just bought me a new 27-inch 2.93GHz Quad-Core i7 iMac. I have 16Gb RAM and a 2TB hard drive. Coming from an older G5 tower, i was extremely excited to get my new machine.
I've only had it one week and it's showing odd signs of slowdown. When trying to resize a window in InDesign CS5, it becomes very laggy. Also, when i do a simple image resize in InDesign, it lags pretty bad. Also, even while just using QuickLook on a 1mb image, I get a beachball.
After i noticed these and other little examples of slowdown, i downloaded GeekBench and closed out every program and ran the benchmark. The results was a paltry score of only 3650! Now, I know something is wrong! I have no idea if this is software or hardware. Adobe CS5 is pretty much the only thing that i've even put on the machine so far.
Any ideas!!??
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You probably have a bad hard drive. You can run Apple Hardware Test and hope it will pick up on it, but probably the best thing to do is take it to an AASP or Apple store where they can run the big boy tools like ASD on it.
If GeekBench gives a breakdown of each subsystem that can also help pin things down. If your HDD scores seem significantly lower than people with similar systems, or even older systems, then that points to your HDD being the problem.

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