Safari stopped working, Apple Mail stopped working...where'd they go?

I don't know what happened...I tried to open Safari, the icon bounced a few times on the dock, then nothing. Same exact thing happens with Apple Mail. All sorts of weird things have been happening since .mac mail became Mobilme. Don't know if it's related but I've had nothing but frustration since then. Computer is very slow, internet crawls.
I'm now using Firefox but it is really slow, too. In the past few days I haven't been able to close the tabs--I've tried manually closing them, closing Firefox, quitting Firefox, even shutting down the computer, waiting overnight and restarting. The Firefox window opens and all of the tabs are still open!
I used to feel like everything always worked on Macs, but in the past year or so--and especially since mobilme--nothing seems to work very well. Mobilme is a disaster!
Any ideas on what happened to my Safari and Apple Mail apps? And how to get rid of the tabs on Firefox?
Thanks!

Hi there, Barry & Gretchen --
Barry, I think Gretchen has only one problem --
her internet connection. That affects everything else that doesn't work well.
I would tend to concentrate on finding that culprit before doing and A&I,
but that's just my two cents.
Gretchen,
1. Who is your ISP?
2. Have you contacted them about the slowdown?
3. How old are your modem and router? Perhaps they need a firmware update?
4. Has Gretchen run the "internet diagnostics" on her Mac yet???
5. Is it affecting both your Macs?
Message was edited by: ~Bee

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