Safari Performance affecting performance of my Snow Leopard iMac

Ever since upgrading to Snow Leopard, I have noticed Safari being noticeably slower and displaying all kinds of odd symptoms such as Top Sites takes a long time to display, Top Sites icons and icons on Cover flow not displaying, Top sites icons displayed as hash (junk). When Safari goes into this state I am not able to switch to other apps running. Icons on my Dock will not highlight when I run the mouse over them. Basically my iMac seems to have hung. After a long moment (maybe 30 seconds) I will get control back. Snow Leopard has not crashed thus far.
I have noticed also that the performance of Safari affects other applications e.g. I was trying to compile a small test program under Xcode. It took a very long time for something that usually takes a few seconds. I terminated Safari and everything went back to normal again.
This problem did not occur when I had Safari 4 running on 10.5.8. My problems started once I upgraded to Snow Leopard.
I have tried all the suggestions on cleaning cache, resetting Safari, deleting various .plist files etc. I've also repaired permissions. Nothing works!
It seems its strictly a problem with Safari and SL. Any other suggestions apart from the usual list of suspects?
Anyone tried reinstalling all of SL (from scratch) to solve these kind of problems? Something left over from 10.5 which should not be there that's confusing Safari and SL?
Thanks in advance.

HI,
Please update your profile by clicking My Settings on the right side of this page to reflect the SL upgrade. Thanks!
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Perhaps there is an underlying issue going on. Boot from the SL disk and run Disk Utility to check for errors on the startup disk.
Insert Installer disk and Restart, holding down the "C" key until grey Apple appears.
Go to Installer menu and launch Disk Utility.
Select your HDD (manufacturer ID) in the left panel.
Select First Aid in the Main panel.
*(Check S.M.A.R.T Status of HDD at the bottom of right panel. It should say: Verified)*
Click Repair Disk on the bottom right.
If DU reports disk does not need repairs quit DU and restart.
If DU reports errors Repair again and again until DU reports disk is repaired.
When you are finished with DU, from the Menu Bar, select Utilities/Startup Manager.
Select your start up disk and click Restart
While you have the Disk Utility window open, look at the bottom of the window. Where you see Capacity and Available. *Make sure there is always 10% to 15% free disk space*
And check out Mac OS X - Maintenance
Safari Add ons can cause performance issues... go here.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA22927?viewlocale=en_US
Carolyn

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