How can I stop the color wheel of death from letting me key?

I am using Lion Mac OS X version 10.7 on an iMac. Since installing Lion, I get the color wheel every few minutes. This is diving me crazy! I try to key anything and it just stops me cold. I waait it out and then start over , I key 2 -3 words and the color wheel is back. HELP!

First, check to see that Spotlight is not indexing. Click on your Spotlight icon upper right toolbar and see if there is a progress bar. If that's the case, you need to let it finish indexing before you'll get better performance.
If not, next boot from the Lion recovery partition by booting up holding the "c" key and run Repair Disk.
Also, how much RAM are you running?

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