Expose animation lag & Dashboard ripple gone after 10.6 on Macbook Pro '08

I upgraded a Macbook Pro 2008 model (MacBookPro4,1) to OS X 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard), and various animation effects across the OS started having issues.
1.) Expose animation of windows coming into place is now laggy.
2.) Dashboard's water ripple effect is gone when adding widgets. Just the widget window zooms in and out in a couple bounces.
3.) But other animations like the dock Genie effect work fine.
These were all working perfectly fine on the OS X 10.5.8 installation I just upgraded from. This is the model with the 256 MB GeForce 8600M GT.
For comparison, I upgraded a Macbook Pro 2007 model with a clean install of Snow Leopard much earlier, and it didn't exhibit any of these issues. Any ideas? This happens even upon fresh reboot (4 GB RAM installed).

You mustn't use MacKeeper > https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3036 Uninstall that program > http://applehelpwriter.com/2011/09/21/how-to-uninstall-mackeeper-malware/
If the problems persist after uninstalling this, it has broken Mac OS X and you have to reinstall Mac OS X. Press Command and R keys while your computer is starting and reinstall Lion

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