Mac is running EXTREMELY slowly

Hello everyone! I'm new to Macs, and I've been quite satisfied with mine. However, I've run into quite the odd issue. Recently (as of a few months) my Mac has started to run extremely slowly. I've done everything on the Internet until I got massively ****** off and formatted it - this seemed to fix it. That time I thought it was a full HD, as it was indeed quite full and I had several large files. However, as of yesterday, it started getting massively slow AGAIN. This time it was not a full HD as I had only 60gb occupied and +200gb free. Again quite ****** off I am formatting it again - in fact I'm posting this from the iPhone as it formats right now.
Now this isn't an old Mac - I bought it in 2009 - and I don't think I do anyhing outrageous with it, really, so I'd really like to know what possibly may be happening. Usually when the "snail mode" begins to happen no force seems able to fix it. Repair permissions shows me several wrong permissions but doesn't seem to actually repair them. Cleaning up uselessness with OnyX doesn't seem to solve anything. When it starts to get truly slow nothing short of shutting down and leaving it that way seems to work - and the next day it seems better, just to get slow again. It doesn't seem to be hardware, as formatting sort of worked previously. Even the gray screen when you turn it on and the login screen get slow - even typing the password. This is quite annoying indeed.
In the last format I moved my iTunes folder to my external HD (which I keep connected; it's a 1TB Samsung formatted to NTSF, and which I used a 3rd party plugin thingy to format and access). Everything other than apps I keep there. The only reasonably heavy apps I had a game (The Sims 3 + all expansion packs) and Photoshop, which I rarely use. This time the slow down began after Sims 3 started crashing so badly I had to forcibly shutdown everything. This happened a few times. I'd understand if the game was slow, but could it have caused such a massive system breakdown?
My machine is an iMac running Leopard (completely updated). It's 20'', Core 2 Duo, with 2gb RAM. I'll be eternally grateful if someone can help me fix these issues for good.
Many thanks from Brazil!

 > System Preferences > Account > Log-In Items > Remove your login items
Also check your Activity Monitor > to see what is running as-well.
Also based on what you wrote before try repairing the disk.
Put in the system disks and boot to them. Repair the disk from there.
Also check out some HDD scanning software, check your HDD for "bad blocks" the SMART scan doesn't usually catch them
I hope this helps!
GL!

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