Slow and Erratic Finder with Bad Folder Dates

I have an old PowerBook G4 running OS X 10.5.8. It was recently started with a bad date (January 2, 1970) and run without reseting Date & Time. Now the Finder takes 20-30 seconds just to open a single folder and way too long for other Finder related activities. Applications seem to run okay, once they finally launch.
Any suggestions on how to remedy the problem would be greatly appreciated.

It does that with my Powerbook when I let the battery run out fully. Go into Date and Time, and if the 'Set date & time automatically' is already ticked, untick it and then retick it. If it isn't already ticked, tick it and set it to wherever your time zone is. Then restart your computer.

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