Corruption of desktop and more

Greetings,
I installed a complete new system 10.4.8
After doing this I have little problems. For example I cannot change the background colour of the desktop. Or if I have 2 windows open lets say Safari and Word and I want to go from Word to Safari I can click on the Safari window but it will not become active or select it. I need to click on the desktop first and than Safari.
I also experience slowness, switching windows takes seconds and even sometimes produces the spinning beach ball. Almost like the MBP (2.16 Ghz) is working like mad, but the activity monitor shows hardly any activity. Although I might only have 3 applications open.
I repaired permissions, ran TechTool Pro. No difference.
Any ideas?

Greetings Barry,
I should have asked before - have you installed any
"haxies" or extenders in Safari (or anywhere else)?
nope!
If you have a "pristine" OS X, we (you) have ruled
software out. I have never seen a similar problem,
but I suppose that hardware could - somehow - create
the problem you are experiencing. The only other
step I can think of is to run the hardware checker
that came with your system.
done that clean bill of health.
any other ideas? I am running out of ideas.

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