Massive slow-down issues

My MBP is about 18 months old now. But in the last week or so it has been having huge issues with speed. I've got enough hard drive space free, and there's nothing in the activity monitor taking up power. I honestly can't find whats wrong. Disk verify comes back with all ok, and even starting up takes almost 5 minutes! Even with nothing plugged into it. Also, annoyingly, Spore is taking almost 5 minutes to even get to the opening movie. And then, invariably, it crashes a few minutes later. This has also only just started to happen.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks
Chris

Hi e3gle;
If you put the install media for your Mac into the optical drive and hold down the "D" key that will invoke the AHT. This can test all of the hardware in your Mac including RAM.
Allan

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