New user - Some issues I want to resolve

I purchased my mac 2nd hand about 6 weeks ago (24" Mid 2007, 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM) and got it home and set it up and everything has been working flawlessly. Also purchased a magic mouse & trackpad which have also been working fine.
I received an email last night from a friend with some PDF docuements for work, and since then I have been having some issues. Dont know if this has any relevance whatsoever or just completely coincidence.
Issues I have encountered so far are :
1) I noticed was my trackpad was real laggy, to the point of unusable.
2) I can hear a buzz/hum which I never used to hear, hard to tell if it's the optical drive or hard drive, but something sounds like it is constantly spinning - im a bit anal about things like this and it really bugs me, especially as it wasnt doing this before
3) My WiFi connection is proving to be problematic coming from sleep / cold boot. If I click on the WiFi icon in the taskbar it will not display any available networks and just says "looking for networks". If I then click on "Join network" > "Show Networks" this then shows me available networks. If I then choose my network, it takes a long time (about 30-60 seconds) to display the WPA2 password box. I then enter my password and I see the icon in the taskbar goto a full 5 bars, but the screen where I enter my password still says "Connecting..." and eventually results in a "Connection failed!" even though the connection is actually there and I can browse the internet.
4) Generally feeling "laggy", eg opening System Preferences can take 30+ seconds
What I have tried to do to fix these problems
1) Unpaired and repaired which seems to of rectified the issue
2) Finding it hard to differentiate if the hum is from optical or hard disc. If I hold my hand on the back of my Mac I can feel vibration close to the centre, by the stand support.
Have tried running Disk Checker to see if it identifies any S.M.A.R.T errors but all came back ok. It did find some faults with Disk Permission's which I fixed.
3) This is the one that is really annoying me and have tried several recommendations found on the internet, including ;
Turning wifi on/off
Turning router on/off
Changing settings in energy saver
Removing saved wifi networks / re-adding
Removing passwords from keychain
Updating to OS X 10.8.5
4) As I am a new user, I do not fully understand what I am doing yet, but I have opened up the Activity Monitor and noticed that there is a high CPU load quite consistently (also back of mac appears quite hot to the touch). I have noticed that parentalcontrolsd seems to be consuming a lot of CPU time, even though I dont have parental controls on. It is usally 80%+ CPU. Also ocspd appears to be quite a cpu hog too (constant 20-50%)
This all happened on Friday 13th! lol
Any help with any of the above would be appreciated.

In Activity Monitor, select the processes with the high CPU use and quit them using the Quit button at the top left.
Also try a restart.

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1. ??? Any command for a user1 to see tablespaces available to >him? you can run this select statement to find outwhat tablespaces are available for you:
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seen by others) demo tables without repeating the process as >above for each person.??? if thats ur plan u can install the demobild.sql to all the schema of ur users that is they take their own copy of the tables.
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