Snow Leopard slows to a crawl...

I have a two-year old iMac that I upgraded to Snow Leopard. Since then the system runs incredibly slow, as though the processor's time is suddenly being hogged by something. After a complete shutdown things work better for awhile. Also it seems to backup and sync with MobileMe more often, which will also slow things down quite a bit.
On my relatively new MacBook Pro the upgrade has worked great. Significantly faster all around.
Is anyone at Apple reading these posts?

Same here, It is so slow it is unusable.
It is so slow my network won't even start (ir it migh be anither problem).
It is not frozen, if you stay long enough you may notice something moving every half hour or so.
My machine is brand new, the only 2 apps I installed are Skype and VmWare Fusion. Unplugged all external devices, power in that is it. Rebooted twice (takes almost 20minutes) still no go.
I am new to Mac so I am definitly good at troubleshooting on Mac OSX.
Dissapointed... I bought a Mac because they simply work...

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    system.log
    Sep 13 18:09:01 localhost com.apple.launchd[1]: * launchd[1] has started up. *
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    Sep 13 18:09:20 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 sudo[78]: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/Library/StartupItems/HWNetMgr/HWNetCfg
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    Sep 13 18:09:21 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow[50]: Login Window Application Started
    Sep 13 18:09:24 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 loginwindow[50]: Login Window Started Security Agent
    Sep 13 18:09:25 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 iStatLocalDaemon[66]: Waiting for connections on port 5204.
    Sep 13 18:09:27 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 mDNSResponder[17]: SIGHUP: Purge cache
    Sep 13 18:09:31 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 configd[15]: network configuration changed.
    Sep 13 18:11:00 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 loginwindow[50]: Login Window - Returned from Security Agent
    Sep 13 18:11:00 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 loginwindow[50]: USER_PROCESS: 50 console
    Sep 13 18:11:01 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[121] (com.apple.ReportCrash): Falling back to default Mach exception handler. Could not find: com.apple.ReportCrash.Self
    Sep 13 18:11:10 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[121] (com.apple.Kerberos.renew.plist[137]): Exited with exit code: 1
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    Sep 13 18:11:27 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 WindowServer[85]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
    Sep 13 18:11:29 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 SystemUIServer[126]: MenuCracker 2.0 (/Library/Application Support/iStat local/extras/MenuCracker.menu)\n See http://sourceforge.net/projects/menucracker\n MenuCracker is now loaded. Ready to accept new menu extras. Ignore the failure message that follows.
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    Sep 13 18:11:29 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 SystemUIServer[126]: MenuCracker: Allowing "iStatMenusDateAndTimes".
    Sep 13 18:11:36 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 SystemUIServer[126]: MenuCracker: Allowing "iStatMenusNetwork".
    secure.log
    Sep 13 18:09:08 localhost com.apple.SecurityServer[23]: Session 0x5fbff962 created
    Sep 13 18:09:09 localhost com.apple.SecurityServer[23]: Entering service
    Sep 13 18:09:17 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 com.apple.SecurityServer[23]: Succeeded authorizing right 'config.modify.com.apple.CoreRAID.admin' by client '/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreRAID.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Core RAIDServer' for authorization created by '/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreRAID.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Core RAIDServer'
    Sep 13 18:09:24 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 com.apple.SecurityServer[23]: Session 0x236025 created
    Sep 13 18:09:24 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 com.apple.SecurityServer[23]: Session 0x236025 attributes 0x30
    Sep 13 18:09:24 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 loginwindow[50]: Login Window Started Security Agent
    Sep 13 18:09:25 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 SecurityAgent[103]: User info context values set for ericgl
    Sep 13 18:09:26 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 SecurityAgent[103]: Login Window login proceeding
    Sep 13 18:11:00 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 SecurityAgent[103]: Login Window done
    Sep 13 18:11:00 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 com.apple.SecurityServer[23]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.login.console' by client '/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app' for authorization created by '/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app'
    Sep 13 18:11:00 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 loginwindow[50]: Login Window - Returned from Security Agent
    Sep 13 18:11:01 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 com.apple.SecurityServer[23]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.login.done' by client '/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app' for authorization created by '/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app'
    Sep 13 18:11:09 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/CCacheServer.app/Contents/MacOS/CCacheServer[145]: Starting up.
    Sep 13 18:11:14 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 com.apple.SecurityServer[23]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.print.admin' by client '/System/Library/Printers/Libraries/makequeuesagent' for authorization created by '/System/Library/Printers/Libraries/makequeuesagent'
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    13/09/09 6:09:07 PM kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=1 LocalApicId=1 Enabled
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    13/09/09 6:09:07 PM kernel calling mpopolicyinit for Quarantine
    13/09/09 6:09:07 PM kernel Security policy loaded: Quarantine policy (Quarantine)
    13/09/09 6:09:07 PM kernel calling mpopolicyinit for Sandbox
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    13/09/09 6:09:25 PM Firewall[100] iStatLocalDaemon is listening from ::ffff:0.0.0.0:5204 proto=6
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    Sep 14 05:46:57 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 bootlog[65]: BOOT_TIME: 1252871201 0
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    Sep 14 05:47:04 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow[55]: Login Window Application Started
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    Sep 14 05:47:09 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 mDNSResponder[18]: SIGHUP: Purge cache
    Sep 14 05:47:10 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 configd[15]: network configuration changed.
    Sep 14 05:47:10 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 loginwindow[55]: Login Window Started Security Agent
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    Sep 14 05:47:11 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[109] (com.apple.ReportCrash): Falling back to default Mach exception handler. Could not find: com.apple.ReportCrash.Self
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    Sep 13 19:48:03 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 WindowServer[85]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
    Sep 13 19:48:03 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 com.apple.WindowServer[85]: Sun Sep 13 19:48:03 eric-lawrences-MBP-2.local WindowServer[85] <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.

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    Thanks for your contributions. I have made little progress on this issue since posting.
    Just as added info, I did a re-install of Snow leopard from install DVD and upgrade again to 10.6.1 and no change to the startup behaviours. Same pattern as before, although the first restart was fast and probably how it is meant to be, then the slow ones reappeared.
    I also had a thought that somehow it may be related to the nominated startup disk. There were posts on other boards about similar issues with Leopard where the hanging start was found to be related to the computer not knowing which startup disk to use. I thought maybe as it works when using the boot camp icon from Windows but not the restart button, it may be related, but in OSX and Windows both are set to startup in OSX on HD. So no further joy.
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    The fact that there are so few people with the same problem suggests to me that there is a third party device/preference/ hidden file somewhere that is having an effect and it's not an Apple issue.
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