Help systems slow to load in Leopard

Recently, all my applications' help systems have become painfully slow to load - including Leopard's. Any clues?
Best
Keith..

Thanks for trying to help - it's much appreciated. This is how I changed my HDD, (though, as previously stated, the problem predates this change).
- Old disk removed & mounted in a USB housing
- New 320GB disk installed from the Leopard DVD using the erase & install option
- Applications & files transferred to the new disk, using the migration utility
- All applications seem to launch quickly & run fine - iLife, iWork, Office, Logic, Parallels...
The only exception seems to be the help sub-system, which is slow to launch & load new pages - for Finder & other applications. It's over a minute to show the home pages & 20-30 seconds to follow any link. It's almost as if it's looking for on-line help content & timing-out before showing local pages (but I don't know if this is even an option)?!?
BTW, I used to use Cocktail regularly on my G4 PowerBook but never used any similar utilities on the MBP. I have now used IceClean to run the daily/weekly/monthly OSX maintenance 'cron' routines and this has made no difference.

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1. a. Resetting your Mac's PRAM and NVRAM
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