Lots of problems all of a sudden!

Hi everyone - hope someone can halp me - I'm pulling my hair out!
Until yesterday, my Mac Mini was running just fine in every regard. Now everythings seems to have gone weird. Here are the symptoms:
1) Certain web pages take forever to load or won't load at all. Google and bing results will flash up instantly, but loading certain websites, the blue bar on Safari gets so far then stops whilst the grey spinning wheel on the tab goes for ages, sometimes the blue bar then disappears and a second grey spinning wheel apears at the end of the progress bar. I have tried Firefox and the issue IS NOT just with Safari.
2) When trying to connect to the mac App Store, I get the grey spinning wheel for ages before I simply end up with a blank app store pane with a message in the centre saying "Cannot connect to the App Store".
3) When I try and connect to the Itunes store, I get the "Accessing iTunes Store" progress bar at the top for ages until I get a box pop up saying "iTunes could not connect to the iTunes Store. The network connection timed out. Make sure your network settings are correct and your network connection is active, then try again."
4) Some of my widgets on the dashboard are refusing to load data from the web.
PERTINENT (maybe) INFORMATION:
- I know my internet connection is fine as my iPhone is using everything just great.
- Some webpages (including this one) are happy to load as usual.
- Whilst I was typing all this a few minutes ago I abandoned it as everything started working again randomly (the same problems reappeared minutes later and so I came back).
- I downloaded the iMesssage Beta from the Apple website yesterday.
WHAT I HAVE TRIED:
I have uninstalled the iMessage Beta, closed all apps and restarted the Mac.
SYSTEM SPECS:
Mac mini (early 2009)
Intel Core 2 Duo (2 GHz)
2 GB RAM
Mac OSX Lion 10.7.4

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