Dock unresponsive, folder icons do not appear

Hello,
All the following problems happened last night, the computer still works.. but it's slow, and erratic.
-My dock will not appear (it's not set to hiding)
-all folder icons are invisible
-previously set hot corners do not work
-relaunching finder results in nothing (even though it switches from saying unresponsive, to it being fine)
-If I scroll over the dock menu in finder, the beach ball appears and the only way to get rid of it, is to click on the desktop.
-Running disk utility results in multiple broken permissions involving java, but keeps repeating the same items (multiple runs of repair permissions give the same results. One such permission is this, Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired.

Oops, I must have posted my question before finishing it.
I have restarted it, the same problem occurs. I made another admin account to see if it would work on that, but same results. I also ran Hardware test and it just confirmed that it's a software problem. I have the cd's I just need to find a way to back up my computer. So I was trying to avoid it if possible. Thank you for responding though.

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