ITunes wont close / constant right click - time for a clean OS install?

so......my beloved macbook pro of 3 years is starting to get glitchy: 
iTunes will not stay closed down, even a force quite or killall process won't keep it shut.  It just bounces in the dock playfully and pops back up again.  Strange one.
The second issue, and this is now happening quite oftern, is when I go to click on something (just using the internal trackpad) it actually right clicks instead.  This is obviously really frustrating.  The only way I can get it to stop right clicking is to do a 4-finger swipe to another desktop or the widget page and back again.  Then it dissapears for a little while.
Third issue - long boot time.  waaaaaay off what it used to be like no so long ago.  getting on for 1m30s all in all.
So, what do you think?  Time for a clean install of the OS after formating the main partition?  Any other suggestions would be welcomed at this stage.  I obviously back up using time-machine so could restore after the reinstall.  But would this just bring the problems back again? 
Please note I have alreadt tried a reinstall of the OS WITHOUT formatting the drive.
System:
MacBook Pro Mid 2009
Processor  3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory  4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Graphics  NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB
Software  Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4 (11E53)
Thanks in advance for any help,
Tompz

Hi there,
My iMac has very similar specs, Same processor, same graphics card, and is from Late 2009. I have long boot times, however operation is relatively smooth, I think I am one of the lucky ones.
It sounds like your hard drive is beginning to reach the end of its life. Make sure you have full backups for when it does eventually fail, which still could be in a few years time.
About last year, I upgraded my RAM to 8GB, which has done great things. RAM is relatively cheap (if you buy if from somewhere like Crucial, NOT Apple who charge a huge premium) so I reccomend making a simple upgrade there to tide you over.
In regard to iTunes, I reccomend a reinstall.
Have a nice day,
Nathan

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