Director 12 on mac os 10.7.5 spinning beachball every time i switch apps

I have 16GB ram, and once director is launched - even with no movie open if i switch to the finder, or even a screen saver starts, when i go back to director i get the spinning beachball for 30-45 seconds, even on a fresh boot with no other apps running...
Any suggestions? this seems to be new to director 12.
It's not reading the disk, i have tons of ram, eventually it comes back, but its quicker to quit then click out to another app and relaunch when i'm done ... not exactly good for productivity...

Once I opend one of my older files, the problem disappeared, even that I open the "problem files" after that.
It is really strange and I don't understand the reason. But whenever that "delay-problem" appears again, I just once open that special file, and the problem is gone. I just open and then close it, I even don't run it. It's magic.
It must contain something with "reparing effect". I checked the Xtras and some things, but I could not find an essential difference to my others app, as I always work the same style. My slight guess is, that it might have something to do with the "scriptExecutionStyle.
So I recommend this: Open old Director files, until the problem disappears. Okay, this is an unsatisfying solution, but it worked, whyever.

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They and you shoud know before tinkering to have multiple backups and how to repair a system. Whether Windows or a PC, whether chkdsk or fsck or booting from system DVD.
Two years ago all Mac Pro came with 10.6.0 as of sept 2009.
Onyx is not really for fixing and the OS forum has more than a couple people that had the same bad luck using Onxy and other cleaning programs. They can and will do more and have a lot of features. Knowing which to use when. In he past "Applejack" was darn easy and safe to use.
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Clone system to another drive and repair and test booting there (do safe boot also first time)
Then tell us and focus on the underlying issue you began with - but don't mention.
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Mac OS X Version 10.4.11 (Build 8S165)
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HID Event usage = 0x0022, value = 0
HID Event usage = 0x0021, value = 0
HID Event usage = 0x0020, value = 0
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Dec 3 09:53:57 Multiverse mDNSResponder: ReceivePortMapReply: response too short (12 bytes)
Dec 3 09:53:58 Multiverse mDNSResponder: ReceivePortMapReply: response too short (12 bytes)
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Dec 3 10:14:56 Multiverse /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari: doClip: empty path.
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First off, thanks for all the suggestions. I've tried each one - unfortunately, Safari is still giving me the spinning wheel when I surf for more than a couple of minutes.
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I'm copying below my most recent Console log. Perhaps there's something different I need to do with DNS...? Quicktime Kirk, if you suspect it's something to do with DNS, could you please be more specific with regards to what I should be looking for? I really appreciate it.
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2008-12-03 21:44:33 -0500
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hidProduct=1095, storageProduct=1095,productName=iP6000D
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