Help - MacBook spinning wheel blues! 10% of normal speed but tests OK???

I have had my MacBook for around two months now. I upgraded the memory to 2GB with 3rd party DIMMs specifcallly sold for the Mac Book and carrying a lifetime warranty. The Mac Book is never moved and only used in clamshell mode on a thick (and cool) marble-topped table. I have an external Apple USB keyboard, Blutooth mouse and 17" LCD monitor.
Suddenly last Thursday I started getting the dreaded spinning wheel hangs trying to do absolutely anything. I have tried the following in order of escalation:
1. Restarted
2. Repaired permissions - all OK
3. Repaired the drive - all OK
4. Run the Hardware Test (then the extended test) - all OK
5. Re-installed the software (with archive) the OS from MacBook DVD-ROM
6. Backed-up then did a re-install and erase - i.e. factory config
7. Zeroed the whole drive overnight and repeated 7
All without any effect on the apalling hangs/spinning wheel during every finder or application operation. Just backing up to DVD-R took 3 days because it took around 10 times longer to write each disk tham indicated by Toast. Thankfully my external DVD drive has buffer under-run prevention.
Any ideas? I would be suspicious that it was a memory or HD problem but the hardware tests say otherwise and there are no craches or errors being reported.
Had I been in the UK then I would have returned it to the shop for repair, but I am in Turkey and the only service agent is 1,000 miles away in Istanbul. I am not confident that they would fix the problem as no hardware errors are being indicated.
Help! (sent c/o my old iBook G4/800Mhz - around five times faster than the Mac Book now).

Hi,
You need to try taking out the RAM that you replaced and put the stock RAM back in. See if that does anything. Also, try resetting the PMU. Although that deals with the Power Managment, it seems that resetting it will cure a lot of problems as well. To do this, take out the battery, hold down the power button for 5 seconds without the computer plugged in, and then replace the battery and see what happens. If trying these steps does not solve the problem, I would call Apple Care. I know nothing about the service in Turkey, but hopefully Apple will be able to help.
-MRCUR

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