Finder Slow, windows jumpy or jagged when dragging?

I just updated to Mac OS 10.7.5 Lion and the finder seems to be slow, when I drag windows there skipping, NOW I do have a 2 monitor setup and when I drag the window to it, its just fine, even when I scroll with a mouse wheel its skippy, I play Minecraft and it runs fine and then BAM FPS drops to 4 or 5fps ( that might be different I know but who knows), also, when I'm on Safari it lags as well not the loading of the site just when I scroll. I have an Nvida 8800 512MB graphics card. I have done all the updates and Nvida doesn't have drivers for this card for the Mac for 107.5. What could be causing this?

Anyone have an answer to this seems all I do is search google for Finder slow on Mac Os X 10.7.5 and all I find is Time Machine slow this slow that. I really need to know I hate having to restart my Mac over and over. I have 7GB RAM if that helps?

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