I can't safe reboot if I choose my user account, no problem with the rest or user's accounts

Hi to all,
Since I've installed ML and also after 10.8.1 upgrade, my account is behaving very strangely.
It does seem to work, but every time I restart in my account, it takes ages and starts up app I've already closed (as if it was frozen when restarted), I get Toast 10, Disk Utility, App Store, Safari, Mail and Photoshop. Slowly, very slowly, in this order. I had improved, as I had some reboots with the Mountain Lion installer asking to instal Mac OS X!
Oddly enought, that first times Finder didn't show when I pressed Cmd-Tab for changing applications, it would show only if I clicked on the Desktop.
I did a clean install of ML and imported from Time Machine. I also did a "upgrade install", that is, over what I had (already ML).
I can't restart or close down unless I do it on the cold way, that is, pressing the power butto, as I can get no shutdown dialog, and if I choose from the Apple Menu, no matter what I choose, nothing seems to happen. Same when I choose "About this Mac", nothing happens, I have to manually open System Profiler.
But, in contrast, I can open from the Apple Menu App Store with no problems, for example.
Now I reboot and shutdown my Mac thanks to the Terminal!
Another "minor" inconvenient is that my Mail Rules weren't imported, and I don't know how to pass them to the new Mail, so all my Mail lies there in the "Inbox" unclassificated
If I go to a different user, then everything works apparently. So it must be something I have added, but it can be something installed many System versions before, so I have no idea on how to track it down, although I've deleted many old applications and preferences, including some problematic Fonts, Perian, etc.
I tried safe boot, but when I enter in my user, screen turns light gray and it doesn't start anything, so I have to force a cold shutdown again with the power button and restart again.
Safe boot with a different account has no problem again.
Sorry for the looong explanation, but, although I can work in my user, I'm worried as my work slows down a lot.
Thanks in advance to any help you can give me!

Sorry for the delay...
I did what you've told me, new account and manually copied my files from Time Machine. I had lots of permissions problems, but at the end, almost everything is in order... It seems it had to be with some of the Apple Preferences, but I can't be sure, as most of them were dumped to the trash can.
I still don't have my Mail Rules back, unfortunately, although I did goggled some. It is a pity, as I had around 30 or 40 of them, getting my mail in order to each of its mailboxes, but it is a small price as the rest doesn't show the before syntoms.
Thanks for the help, anyway!!

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