OS Lion will not shutdown

I upgraded my MBP recently to use Lion. I seldom shut my computer down due to the fact that I have a SSD, but when I did try Lion would get to the gray screen with the pinwheel. I was told that it could take awhile the first few times however I feel 8 hours is too long. I adjusted the general settings to not allow the reopening of applications and this solved the problem. Temporarily. I have bootcamp running with Windows 7 Ultimate installed. Once again the computer refuses to shut down from the Lion OS and everytime I switch OS's I have to reset the **** clock because they are six hours out of sync!!

Disconnect all peripherals.
Eject cd/dvd from the superdrive.
Delete Print Queue if any.
Reset PRAM. http://support.apple.com/kb/PH4405
Reset SMC. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
Choose the method for:
"Resetting SMC on portables with a battery you should not remove on your own".
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Hi there—
This reply doesn't seem to take into account the query.
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<<personal information removed>>
From: Chris Cox <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2010 12:38:58 -0600
To: Markus Beaumonte <markus>
Subject: Photoshop Macintosh Photoshop CS5 will not shutdown
markus - could you email that file to ccox (at) adobe com ?
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