Finder doesn't show folders straight away

Hi guys,
For about the past month or so, my Finder window hasn't displayed folders as quickly as it use to... The Finder window will appear as soon as I open it, and my favourites will be listed on the LHS, but if I click on any of them (e.g. Documents), nothing will be displayed in the main window for at least 10 seonds. Even the applications favourite doesn't display my applications for quite a while. It misbehaves less than 50% of the time at the minute, but it will do the same thing in other applcations. For example, when I try to save a Pages document for the first time, none of my folders will be displayed in the save window for quite a while.
While I'm waiting for the folders to appear, I don't see the spinning beach ball, so it doesn't seem as though things are just really slow, they just aren't there for a while...
Any advice/comments would be greatly appreciated! I'm a little worried that my hard drive may be coming to an end!
Thanks
Paul

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