SL Upgrade - Standard Account Beach Ball Spinning on Right Menu Bar?

Just upgraded to SL from Leopard 10.5.8. Install went smoothly, went through typical verification of software, etc. Most things look good; I know the forums are flooded with folks having a terrible time, but the only buggy thing so far I've noticed is in one of my two standard accounts. My iMac is a family computer and I have 5 user accounts (1 admin, 2 standard (my wife and I), and 2 limited (one for each of my children). For my standard account only I've noticed that when I try and hover over the Time Machine, Bluetooth, Sound Level, or Time information icons on the right hand side of the top menu bar, I get the spinning beach ball no matter how long I hover. This anomaly happens ONLY in my account, not my wife's standard or the limited or admin accounts.
Here are the things I've done so far in hopes of repairing:
1) Repaired Permissions
2) Gone into System Preferences and looked at sound, bluetooth, etc. preferences to see whether the option is for checked for appearing in the menu bar. Strange thing is, even though I can see them in the menu bar, the System Preferences option is unchecked. I've checked and unchecked in various combinations and restarted each time - no luck.
3) Created a new account - no problems.
Does anyone have any advice on sovling this? Is there a preference file I can delete to fix this. Should I simply create a new account and use it? If so, how would I get all my documents and files from the old account associated with the new account? Not to much worried about my standard docs, but really concernced about getting my Aperture 2 library moved over to my new accounts. Is it as simple as dragging the folders from one user account to the other? The above problem I've described is an annoyance, not a show stopper. I don't want to create more problems trying to fix it.
Thank you.

Okay, that's fine I'll just use the account I just created. However, how do I associate this account with my other files under the corrupt "USER" directory? Can I just copy over the folders from there? If I do that, won't I be bringing the problem(s) from the old account over?
Again, I'm not really worried about my document files, I can always create new folders and bring them over one at a time. The Aperture 2 library is what I'm concerned about. I can ask over on the Aperture forum though.
Thanks for your help!

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well...
talk about complicating things unnecessarily !...LOL...
i opened a drawer where i keep all sorts of odds & ends & guess what ? yup, the original APC PowerChute install disk was there, laughing at me - bugger....
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John

John,
I am having the same problem. It looks like Address Book and Mail get choked up because they share the same syncserver. Here is more information (but no solution yet):
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2132038&tstart=0
- Dr. Z.-

My imac 2011 snow leopard boots up to desktop but can't access ANY function just the beach ball spinning forever

My iMac boots up to the desktop. I let it warm up but as soon as I select ANY function the beachball appears and I have no function or access to ANYTHING- just this spinning ball. It has been shutdown for about 6 weeks. I have reset the PRAM and it seems to be getting very hot. It has been trying to load in safe mode now for about 30 minutes. Does that sound right?

Soundzalive wrote:
... Sounds like a new hard drive?
Yes. Read this to determine if it applies: iMac 1TB Seagate Hard Drive Replacement Program
Whether your data can be retrieved or not is unknown. To determine the answer would require a non-trivial expense and there is no guarantee it would be successful.
Schedule a visit to the Genius Bar using the link in the above document, even if it indicates your iMac is not eligible for the replacement. Only Apple can make a final determination.

Slow mail = beach ball spins with every click in every field.

This happens since installing Snow Leopard: every click in mail takes 5 or 10 seconds for anything to happen. Reaction was always instant before. Anyone know of any fix?
Examples of when this happens:
When I click on "Forward."
When I click "New Message" to pull up the blank email form.
When I click on the "To" line.
When I click on any other field to compose and send an email.
That is, when I click on anything.
Thank you for any advice.

Some other post (which one?) contained the resolution: Go under the "Mailbox" menu and select "Rebuild" for each account. Count on it taking a while.

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