Finder & UserEventAgent (Not Responding) Leopard 10.5 Upgrade

So I upgraded to 10.5 last night and when I log onto my main admin account everything loads up except for the Finder. I can open applications I already had in my dock before the upgrade and can use system preferences and the lot, but when it comes to the Finder all I get is the spinning rainbow wheel. Funny thing is that I logged into one of my other user accounts and the Finder loads up perfectly and I can use it there but not the case with my main admin account. I've looked into Activity Monitor and it shows both the Finder & UserEventAgent as (Not Responding). I've restarted multiple times and relaunched Finder as well and I still get the same thing. Being me and very confident in Apple's work and my experience with upgrading from Panther to Tiger smoothly, I didn't think about backing up my files.
So now I'm trying to figure out why the Finder won't load and that hopefully I can get past it so that I can back my files up once and for all.
Anyone have any ideas of why this might be happening on my main admin account and not on one of my others?

Same problem here, but I think I know what the problem is...
Most likely Spotlight is re-indexing your entire drive. Click on the Spotlight icon on the right end of your menu bar, and if you are like me, it shows that Spotlight is busy at work.
After about ten minutes My desktop finally came up, although Spotlight is still chugging away.
Oddly, when I first installed last night, everything went smoothly on my first boot. But Cover Flow was pretty choppy, taking a while to move through files and render their previews.
Also, check your available hard drive space. As my indexing is happening right now, it's disappearing rapidly (I installed with about 400MB free, and after ten minutes of indexing it's down to 288 and shrinking.
All in all, this seems to add up to Spotlight work in the background.

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