Safari 5.0 just plain acting strangely

I'm on a DSL connection, and other than the Safari 5.0 update (which Software Updater grabbed as soon as it was available), nothing on my system has changed. I don't think it's me.
When some pages are loading, the little spinning fan on the right side of the URL bar appears. On others it doesn't. When some pages load the blue progress bar behind the URL appears. On others it doesn't. Sometimes neither appears, but the page is actually loading despite the fact that it appears Safari is hung. Sometimes both appear and everything is right with the world.
So far I can't say I'm terribly impressed with Snow Leopard and all its wonders. My printer didn't work, Safari is acting weird.... where's the improvement?
B

HI,
Maybe some troubleshooting will help.
Go here for trouble shooting 3rd party plugins or input managers which might be causing the problem. Safari: Add-ons may cause Safari to unexpectedly quit or have performance issues
From the Safari Menu Bar, click Safari / Reset Safari. Select the top 7 buttons and click Reset.
Repair disk permissions.
Launch Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select the FirstAid tab. Click: Repair Disk Permissions. When it's finished from the Menu Bar, Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac. If you see a long list of "messages" in the permissions window, it's ok. That can be ignored. As long as you see, "Permissions Repair Complete" when it's finished... you're done. Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac.
And if you still see lags, go to the Safari Menu Bar, click Safari/Preferences. Make note of all the preferences under each tab. Quit Safari. Now go to ~/Library/Preferences and move this file com.apple.safari.plist to the Desktop.
Relaunch Safari and see if that makes a difference. If not, move the .plist file back to the Preferences folder. If Safari functions as it should, move that .plist file to the Trash.
Carolyn

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From your Safari menu bar click Safari / Empty Cache. Restart your Mac, try Safari.
If that didn't help, quit Safari if it's open.
Go to ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari
Move the Cache.db (or ApplicationCache.db) file from the com.apple.Safari folder to the Trash.
Try Safari.
If nothing above helped, make sure there's enough free space on the startup disk. Right or control click the MacintoshHD icon. Click Get Info. In the Get Info window you will see Capacity and Available. Make sure you have a minimum of 15% free disk space.
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Launch Disk Utility. Select the startup disk in the panel on the left then select the First Aid tab.
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[email protected]

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> What is the best way to transfer preferences, snippets,
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>I also wanted to give an update on the exact behavior I
am experiencing:
>
> 1) I click on an element on the layout view and nothing
happens - I
> r-click
> and it works as intended (but the contextual menu also
pops up)
> 2) I select code in the code view and instead of
highlighting the
> corresponding element in design view, nothing happens.
> 3) When I r-click in design view on an element both the
code and the CSS
> rule
> hightlights but when I select an element in code view
the CSS pane does
> not
> respond at all. Other times it does show a rule but it
always the last
> rule in
> my css, not the one I am selecting in code view.
> 4) I click on a CSS rule in the CSS pane and I cannot go
to the
> corresponding
> line of code in the CSS file about 70% of the time. When
it does work half
> the
> time it takes me to the wrong place in the css file.
> 5) In the code toolbar if I select a line of code all
the "Comment" and
> other
> icons on the left may or may not be greyed out.
Switching from one file to
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> 6) On some files I cannot activate the "Visual Aids"
toolbar icon. It
> stays
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and come back.
>
> My guess is there are scores of other features not
working properly. I
> just
> haven't got to them yet.
>
> What is the best way to transfer preferences, snippets,
etc. from one
> computer
> to another? I want to try to capture my old preferences
(code coloring,
> file
> extensions, etc.) and see if that makes a difference. At
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> to
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