Frequent "Not responding" message on multiple applications

For the last couple of weeks (I think after doing the Hard Drive update) almost every program I uses responds much more slowly, painfully so, than before and often is described as "Not Responding" in the Force Quit option. In most cases, if I just sit and wait the program will eventually Respond, but even then lots of spinning beach balls. Have repaired permissions three times and get the following message:Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired.
I've no idea what this means. Any ideas? Thanks.

Hi
There are are countless threads on the SUID subject, the message is harmless & can be ignored. It just means that you installed the Remote Desktop update, that's all. Apple knows about it & will, probably, get rid of the message with a future update.
Does anything at http://thexlab.com/faqs/multipleappsquit.html help with the Not Responding messages?
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Time : 10:24:51
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Computer : XXXXX
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Time : 10:24:51
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Source : Office Software Protection Platform Service
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User : N/A
Computer : G15-16
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No offense intended, but while I agree that this could be the case, your answer is for XP and I find it lacking a good solution with a rather bland explanation.
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or not Word is already open at the time the document is opened. It almost seems as though the Office Platform Protection Service is the CAUSE of the problem, and when looking at the process in SysInternals Process Explorer, I don't see anything out of the
ordinary that would explain why the system resources are being tied up by that service, although I admit I have not been able to capture the problem when it's occurring because it happens pretty randomly.
I'm less convinced that there is a third-party software causing the problem and more convinced that if the OPPSVC is already running, and you happen to open a document at the exact same time that the service fires off to do it's check, it enters a minor
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if it's causing the problem because Word will not start if the service is disabled.
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