Powerpoint-- PDF causes major freeze-up, hard drive now sloooooow

For the first time I tried saving a Powerpoint (version 11.0) show to PDF (Acrobat version 7.0). The screen froze halfway through for a half hour +, and wouldn't let me do anything else, so I force quit.
Ever since, EVERYTHING is MUCH slower -- opening apps or files, saving things, etc. I have run Disk Doctor three times (once off of startup CD), rebooted twice, burned incense and prayed to every god I know of. Still a mess.
Can anyone help, please?

If you use Mac OS X, you should not use Norton Utilities ("Disk Doctor"). Norton was great for Mac OS 9, but it has not been maintained to support Mac OS X, and can make the problem worse.
If you are referring to "Disk Utility," you are fine.
In case you are having a hardware problem with the drive, you may want to make a backup of your critical data.
After starting up from the Mac OS X installation CD, run Disk Utility and use both the repair permissions and repair routines on the hard drive. If that does not resolve the problem, please post back.

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