IWork (number) lags after Snow Leopard upgrade install

My dad upgraded his mac with SL.
After he did his iWork and iLife started lagging really bad. When he opens a large numbers spreadsheet, it takes a very long time to load. Activity monitor shows 98% use and application not responding. If you wait long enough it completes. Also when goes to print there are the same types of delays. It takes like 45 seconds for the print window to open.
When we log into another user and access the same file, everything works fine.
I've tried to delete all the plist files out of his user library. I searched for everything iwork and removed them all to another folder. Still had the problem.
Now we find his iMovie really slow as well. Not sure if its related.
Any ideas on what the next steps are would be great.
Thanks
-Tim

Don't you have another thread open with this exact problem, except there you upgraded to 10.5.8 and were supposedly running Aperture 3 in 10.4?
Anyway have you tried the advice I posted in the other thread?

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Dell Laptop running WinXP
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