ID and 2 other CS2 Appls stop working suddernly, any clues?

Sorry, I can't get the title any more specific. First I noticed Acrobat 7 Pro slowing down, to the point where pages wont turn, or views change, only way to close it is to trash the process (not just end task) in taskman.
Then Indesign started taking 20 minutes to load. After loading, very sluggish. Now Illustrator, same thing. Acrobat now, the same Photoshop, not a problem to be had. Ditto Bridge.
Tried to reinstall ID and Acrobat. (My disks never worked, fortunately I had a desktop installer handy). No joy. Have gone down all of the troubleshooting suggestions, am now reinstalling the whole Suite, while I nap. I balk at reformatting the drive and reinstalling windows. Everything is updated except Win XP is on SP2 because I have heard so much noise about SP3, was waiting.
Machine is working fine otherwise, and it has had every scan short of a colonoscopy all report no problems. Any coincidence that these are the apps in which PDF plays the biggest part? I do have Quickbooks 2006 installed to this machine as well, and while I heard something once about a driver for QB messing with PDFs, I have never had a minutes trouble with it after a year and a half.
Any suggestions as to where to go from here will be greatly appreciated.

It would seem that nearly every process available to the machine is running. I recognize almost all of them only a couple are new. I cannot seem ever to get a straight answer as to what NEEDS to be running in a network environment. The heck of it is that I have run every scan I have. I have AVG antivirus and it works really well most of the time, with not much hit to perfomance. But I have run a couple different spyware scanners, and a couple of optimizer thingies. Nothing to report. 2Gb ram installed, nothing seems out of order there. Maybe Windows is a *wee* bit sluggish, I can't really tell anymore from staring at the screen for hours.... I have had troubles with this machine before with external drives, the delayed write failure error. Hotfix didn't work. But all it ever does is kick the drive off the system, uninstall it and everthing s fine. I never had anything like this.

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