Mission control slow and top bar vanishes

A month ago it started that my mission control suddenly began to "lag". Moving a window would take a few seconds longer than the courser needed und if make a few quick circles with it I can see it swirling around for almost a whole minute. Also my windows won't slowly transist to theire place in mission control and back again. One second they are in full view and the next they are in mission control mode. Fact is: that lag is not normal and it's very diffcult to work with.
This phenomenon happens all the time (rebooting won't solve the problem) except once or twice a week where both animations work perfectly. Only manco: My top Mission control bar is gone. I can still go from space to space with my trackpad gestures but I won't see where I am going.
Further information: I have a fairly new MacBook Pro (2.3 GHz Intel i7, 8 GB RAM) and an OS X Lion update. An update which worked well till a few weeks back.
I hope you can help me.

I agree with everything you said about full screen apps, mission control and launchpad. For apps that made sense to run full screen, they already could under SL. Launchpad is totally unnecessary and Mission Control is a mere shadow of Expose and Spaces.
However, I feel you have not given due credit to Spaces. The point of Spaces is to let one organise logical desktops for different tasks, not just a way to reduce the number of windows on display. For example, I have a Space for software development where I run Xcode and the iPhone simulator, a Firefox window showing perhaps documentation or some other websites pertaining to software development, a Finder window that is opened in the folder with my design docs. I have another Space where I have the remote login sessions, yet another Space with another Firefox window where I do general surfing and emailing. I can switch between these spaces using a keyboard shortcut, which is much quicker than having to lift my hand off the keyboard, move it over to the mouse, move the mouse pointer over the Dock, find the app and click on it, only to find that it has switched to the wrong window of the app.
Without Spaces, organisation of my desktop is disrupted each time I want to switch task, whereas Spaces allows me to drop everything I am doing, go and do something completely different for a while and go back to my exact previous environment. I have a 27" iMac so am not short of screen space but I use Spaces extensively. BTW, switching Spaces using a keyboard shortcut is a lot faster on SL than the equivalent on Lion, thanks to the gratuitous screen animation of the latter.

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