Excessive beach balling after hdd/software upgrade

I am running a MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo, with 8GB of RAM on OS X 10.6.8. I recently woke up my mac with a dead hard drive so I had to replace it and start from scratch because I had no backup (I KNOW, I KNOW, ALWAYS HAVE A BACKUP!). So I took the opportunity to upgrade to a SSD and found a deal on an Intel 180 GB. While waiting for the new hard drive, I installed the OS on my external hard drive to have the ability to use my computer. During this time, I took the liberty of upgrading to OS X Lion. This is when the problem started, frequent hangs and beachballing. I thought the external connection may just be a bit too slow for the new Lion OS, so I dealt.
When the SSD arrived, I swapped the drives. The original hard drive cable couldn't read the drive, so I ordered a new one from China taking a chance. The cable worked, but beachballing started, and it happened no matter the application: iTunes; Safari; Pages; etc. I ordered another cable stamped from the Apple company to be sure. Still beachballed.
From here I got the feeling the problem was Lion, (which shouldn't have been the case either way, I have sufficient hardware), so I downgraded back to Snow Leopard and as you can see, here I am, same problem on Snow Leopard.
What can I do to fix this? I've verified, reverified, and fixed and refixed permissions (this helped only a little). I have plenty of space on my hard drive so I know that's not the cause.
Any help please!
I use my computer everyday for school and it's stressing me out!

Do these speeds seem a bit slow?
I've come to believe it actually is a hardware issue. Just hard to believe this much trouble could be coming from a solid state drive.

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