Safari 5.1.2 Unusable on 1st Gen MBA

After upgrading, Safari has become impossible to use. Spinning rainbow wheel and intolerably long page loading times... When Safari is running, the whole OS becomes sluggish and sometimes locks up for minutes at a time.
Restarted Safari.
Ran Disk Permissions.
Rebooted Computer.
Ran Software Update.
Turned off extensions (only running one).
Deleted the extension.
Installed latest Java.
Installed latest Flash.
Installed ClickToPlugin to avoid running Flash, Silverlight or Shockwave.
Safari 5.1.2 runs perfectly fine on my new 27" iMac running Lion.
It also runs perfectly well on a Guest account on my 1st Gen MacBook Air.
What am I missing here?

Hi Sky....
Spinning rainbow wheel and intolerably long page loading times..
Try disabling the Lion "resume" feature.
Open System Preferences > General
Deselect: Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps
Now from the Safari menu bar click Safari > Empty Cache
And back to the menu bar click Safari > Reset Safari. Select the top 5 boxes then click Reset.
If nothing above helped. go to Safari > Preferences then select the Security tab.
Deselect: Enable plug-ins. Quit then relaunch Safari to test. If that made a difference then you have one or more Safari add ons causing the problem.
Troubleshooting help here > Unsupported third-party add-ons may cause Safari to unexpectedly quit or have performance issues
Keep in mind, third party Safari plugins do not apply to extensions.
And try troubleshooting the Safari preference file (.plist)
Quit Safari.
Go to ~/Library/Preferences then move the com.apple.Safari.plist file to the Desktop.
Relaunch Safari. If that made a difference, move that .plist file to the Trash. If not, move it back to the Preferences folder.

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