Scrollling in home screen is really slow, stalling out, why would it do this?

While I was putting apps into folders, my Ipad 2 started scrolling slowly.  As I change between home pages, the animation takes a long time to complete, and even stalls out altogether, so that it is halfway between one screen and the next.  I rebooted a few times, it is still doing this.  It is hard to select apps to open, as the apps do not open in most cases when clicked on.  If an app is opened, the app itself functions correctly, and at the proper speed.  I can close to the home screen quickly, but as soon as I start trying to swip and scroll, that's when it does it slowly. 
So it only really seems to be a problem with the home screen swiping animations, but I have no idea how to correct this.
I am at the point of restoring, but I wanted to see if there was a solution before I had to do this.  Or at least an idea why it might happen.
I have 500 mb free on the Ipad.  I tried freeing up some more space, but this doesn't seem to fix it.

I had the same problem with a 3rd gen iPod running IOS 4.2.1 - when finger-swiping to slide from one home screen page to the next, it would look like it was getting part way there and then stall ... forever. If I waited long enough, and then clicked the Sleep button, the screen would go blank (as per normal), and then I could click it again and go through the wipe-to-unlock sequence (as per normal), and the home screen page that would be displayed would be the one that it looked like it didn't quite make it to when it stalled. But any scrolling from there resulted in the same thing ... but I could use the same work-around (wait, sleep, unlock). If I finally did make it into an app, all swiping and scrolling worked flawlessly within the app ... but the home screen would still freeze every time I got back to the home screen.
Neither freeing up space on the device (deleting movies), nor hard rebooting (several times), helped at all. Even Settings->General->Reset->Reset Home Screen Layout didn't help.
What finally fixed it was Settings->General->Reset->Reset All Settings. All home screen swiping and scrolling instantly became normal again. I can now move smoothly between home screen pages again !
Of course my groupings of home screen icons were lost, and I had to re-enter my WiFi password, but that's a small price to pay. So maybe that will help for your IPad as well. Just a guess, but I think that maybe one of the config files containing home screen layout & icons got corrupted, and the device stalls while having to parse it. So resetting all settings erases that config file and puts a fresh one in its place.

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