Running Leopard and now everything is SLOW....

I've been running Leopard since its release with no problems what so ever. Today I started to notice some lag while typing and apps took about 2 minutes to start up. I shut down for about 5 hours to see if anything would change, and upon start up everything has become insanely slower. 5-10 mins to start up, 3-5 mins for apps to open, long typing lags, etc. I ran a techtool scan and everything was good. Can anyone give me any adice at all? Thanks in advance.

Try using Disk Utility to do a Disk Repair, as shown in this link, while booted up on your install disk.
You could have some directory corruption. Let us know what errors Disk Utility reports and if DU was able to repair them.
 Cheers! DALE

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