Freezing and slow page loading in Safari

Okay, this is, by far, the most frustrating problem I've had since buying this iBook. It's my first Mac, and up until this point I've been extremely happy with its performance.
Here's the deal: I open Safari, visit a couple of websites... and then around the fifth or sixth website I try to visit (whether it's by typing the address in the bar above or clicking a link) Safari just freezes. I try to reset Safari or sometimes I try to erase the History, and then the entire iBook freezes and I have to turn it off.
Is there some kind of diagnostic I can perform to determine the problem? Is the some Mac-approved virus detecting software I can download somewhere? Is this an adware/spyware problem? What do you think?
I live on my iBook, so this is a very frustrating problem. Any advice you can give me would be appreciated.
-Put

Put -- Have you done these yet?
Restart your computer, Open Safari and then do these:
1. Empty your cache & History settings via the Safari menu
2. Trash your Icons Folder:
HD>Users>Home>YourName>Library>Safari -->Icons
Restart Safari and a new folder will be automatically regenerated.
(This folder saves favicons of all the sites you visit. Needs cleaning periodically -- or you can change that file's preferences to "Read Only"
rather than "Read & Write." This will keep it from growing in size.)
3. You might want to check all three "auto" preferences in Safari. Sometimes those lists gets very long and need pruning. (I turned all autofill boxes off, and have no problems.)
4. Launch Font Book and check all fonts for duplicates. A duplicated font will have a bullet beside the font family and you can resolve duplicates by selecting the font and at the menu bar, go to Edit > Resolve Duplicates.
Do this for each font with a bullet next to it.
If you're still having problems:
5. Shut down your computer . . . unplug the computer, modem, and router, if you have one. Let everything sit for 2-3 minutes. Plug everything back in, start up your modem & router, then restart your computer.
Since this is your first Mac (congratulations, by the way:)
Do you repair permissions before and (at leeast) after major installations & upgrades that require your administrative password to do the installs ?
Hope this helps

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