Something is wrong with my imac, help

I'm not sure how or exactly when this started, probably a few days ago but my imac is running slow. I ran disk repair & repair permissions and all is OK. When I click on a folder in the finder window it takes several seconds before it opens. Also, and most annoying, I can't seem to be able to rename anything. I have jpg photo files on my desktop I would like to rename but it won't let me. I cannot figure out what is going on. Was there an update recently that may have caused this? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

See
http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/maintainingmacosx.html and
http://www.macmaps.com/Macosxspeed.html for starters.

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