Preview acting odd

Hello,
My preview application has been acting strangely for about two weeks. PDFs scroll very sluggishly and once they finally start moving they're out of focus for about 5-10 seconds. Before, it was like flipping through a paper, now it's frustrating and tedious. This is happening on documents that are less than a MB in size. Any suggestions?
I tried Adobe reader, but it's so much worse.
Thank you!

Sure, it would have been too easy
There is also a file com.apple.preview.bookmarks.plist, should I move that to the trash as well?If you have any bookmarks you will lose them and I doubt it will do any good.
Create a new account, name it "test" and see how your Preview works in that User acct? (That will tell if your problem is systemwide or limited to your User acct.) This account is just for test, do nothing further with it.
Open System Preferences >> Accounts >> "+" make it an admin account.
Let us know and we'll troubleshoot this further.
-mj
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