ITunes and System Preferences not responding since upgrade

Since Ive upgraded to 10.7 my MacBook Pro has slowed down (SpotLight is reporting indexing finished). iTunes and a host of programs report not responding and after 1-2 mins fire into life then report not responding.
I've noticed that the UserEventAgent and loginwindow processes are taking up lots of RAM and I keep getting the error:
kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero
Also, at one stage the machine rebooted on its own and reset all values back to default.....
Any one else seeing these issues?

Got around the problem..... Had to re-install Lion via the recovery console (3 hours!!!!!). Is Lion about to become another VISTA!

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After installing Lion 10.7, I find that whenever I try to change the desktop wallpaper in system preferences, it freezes and I have to force quit it.
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