Flashing date!

Help! My menu bar date and time in top right corner suddenly started flashing and Spotlight is not where it should be - in the top right corner. I can use it from the finder. It would normally appear just below the date and time.
Also, iTunes stopped synching with my ipods - they are recognized on the OS in disk mode - but will not link with itunes!
System profiler is gone - so I can't even see how much memory is left.
This all seemed to happpen very suddenly.
I have tried a restart in saefety mode, I tried Repair in Disk Utility after booting from the install disk, I tried slimming my system down by discarding about 20 GB in the trash of old stuff - thinking that maybe I went over my memory limit. Any ideas? Virus?

Create a new user account, and see if the problem persists with that account. This is most-likely not a virus, as there are none for Mac OS X yet, and we'd have all probably heard about it already.
Also, can you pinpoint when this happened? Did you recently install any new software or hacks?

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