Lots of little things...

For the past six months, my MacBook Air has been buggy.  For example, the dashboard at the bottom doesn't come up readily.  Sometimes I have to move the cursor down there four or five times before it will show.
Also, my yahoo email accounts keep asking for my password even though I put it in correctly.  My yahoo mail won't send from my MacBook Air but it sends from my other devices that are set up the same way.
Any suggestions?
Thanks

Reinstalling Snow Leopard
Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
Reinstall OS X: Snow Leopard's installer will not erase your hard drive and will preserve all your data, users, network preferences, and third-party applications and their support files.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.

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