MacBook been loading slow for past few weeks.

I bought my MacBook on October 2007 with Tiger. I then upgraded to Leopard. When I did it loaded slowly, but I erased and re-installed. After that It's been pretty fast. But for the past few weeks, it been loading real slow. I tried Resetting PRAM and NVRAM but it didn't help. I also deleted all the cashes in my Library. It still didn't help. What else can I do it make to load faster?
Any help will be appreciated.

Open up Activity Monitor (Applications>Utilities). Sort the processes by %CPU, and make sure *All Processes* are being shown--this option is in the upper right corner of the window. Is any process using a high amount of CPU?
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