Spinning beach ball at login after 10.5.6 update

Since I upgraded to 10.5.6, the spinning beach ball would appear every time at startup. At the same time, Finder (and/or the menu bar) is frozen and the Dock doesn't show up.
Here are the suspicious error messages in Console:
2008/12/19 上午 1:44:31 Finder[157] IMKClient: exception caught trying to get the rootProxy for connection ((** NSConnection 0x6f5890 receivePort <NSMachPort: 0x6f55d0> sendPort <NSMachPort: 0x6f5590> refCount 7 **)):
NSPortTimeoutException : connection timeout: did not receive reply
2008/12/19 上午 1:44:31 Finder[157] This exception was thrown inside thread: <NSThread: 0x60dfd0>{name = (null), num = 1}. This thread is the main thread.
2008/12/19 上午 1:44:31 Finder[157] **** Returning nil _server ********
2008/12/19 上午 1:44:36 Finder[157] IMKClient: exception caught trying to get the rootProxy for connection ((** NSConnection 0x6f6bd0 receivePort <NSMachPort: 0x6f64b0> sendPort <NSMachPort: 0x6f5590> refCount 7 **)):
NSPortTimeoutException : connection timeout: did not receive reply
2008/12/19 上午 1:44:36 Finder[157] This exception was thrown inside thread: <NSThread: 0x60dfd0>{name = (null), num = 1}. This thread is the main thread.
2008/12/19 上午 1:44:38 com.apple.launchd[119] ([0x0-0xe00e].com.apple.dock[153]) Exited abnormally: Bus error
2008/12/19 上午 1:44:42 Finder[157] IMKClient: exception caught trying to get the rootProxy for connection ((** NSConnection 0x64e820 receivePort <NSMachPort: 0x69b050> sendPort <NSMachPort: 0x6f5590> refCount 7 **)):
NSPortTimeoutException : connection timeout: did not receive reply
2008/12/19 上午 1:44:42 Finder[157] This exception was thrown inside thread: <NSThread: 0x60dfd0>{name = (null), num = 1}. This thread is the main thread.
2008/12/19 上午 1:44:42 Finder[157] **** Returning nil _server ********

Hi there,
Are you using input methods? It looks to me like you have set a simplified Chinese input method. I'm curious what it is. If my guess is correct, then if you disable that input method, you shouldn't have the problem. You will need to remove it from the input methods folder inside of /Library/InputMethods.
Also, what is the input method you're using?
Daniel

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As I mentioned, mid 2010 27-inch iMac, 1TB hard drive, about half-full, backing up to a 2 TB Time Capsule.
We have two wifi networks to cover the whole house; one is integrated with the cable company's provided router and sits in the basement, and the other is the Time Capsule hooked up to the cable company's VoIP router upstairs. Because you cannot use the Time Capsule to extend an existing network if it is not an Apple network, I resorted to setting each wifi network up independently (separately connected to ethernet). My Air navigates this just fine, as do our iPads/iPhones, and I don't notice a speed difference between the two networks (assuming I have equally good reception wherever I am).
Notably, the Time Capsule seems to randomly stop broadcasting wifi every now and then (at intervals of a few days to a couple weeks), which requires a restart to get it working again. (This could be totally unrelated.)
The iMac was at 10.7 when the beach balls started; upgrading to Mavericks made the slowness/beachballs worse. As I noted, Mavericks did not cause any trouble with the Air.
The beach balls seem to coincide with a complete stall in everything the computer is doing. After the stall ends, the computer can be fairly speedy, so it's as if it pauses for several seconds to a minute or so to think very hard, and then goes back to its business.
There is usually a slight improvement if I shut down and boot up again, but it gums up pretty quickly.
Here's what I've done:
Started with 4GB RAM; added another 8 (total 12) after this all started. Equally bad before and after.
Stared at Activity Monitor and Console for long periods of time while watching for beach balls to try to detect a pattern.
In Activity Monitor, memory pressure is fine (esp. now that I added 8 GB), no swap used. The two worst offenders under CPU usage seem to be kernel_task or WindowServer, but they are not always monopolizing the CPU at the times when it is stalled.
In Console, the main two patterns seemed to be a frequent WindowServer "updates forcibly disabled" error, and what seemed like a constant browsing for wifi connections even though the computer was already connected to wifi. However, I couldn't figure out what either of these meant or what might be done to fix them.
Used disk utility, repaired permissions, verified disk, etc. - everything was ok, although some permissions were repaired.
Used third-party utilities, Onyx and iDefrag, to try to verify disk and clean things up. No significant problems detected, and no improvement.
Various other methods of cleaning up -- eliminating old software or files that aren't being used, emptying trash, taking extra files off the desktop, etc. In particular, having read that Mail might have issues handling Google accounts, I eliminated a heavily-used Google account from Mail and got a separate, lighter-weight third-party app to handle that account. That did seem improve things at first, but we seem to be back to slowness and beach balls again.
Final, last-ditch effort: backed up and then erased hard drive and (after another Disk Utility verify - still fine) did a clean install of Mavericks.
It took several attempts to download the installer using the Time Capsule network (kept stalling); switched to the other (non-Apple) wifi network and it downloaded and installed fine.
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I'm currently working on 2 separate corporate films - Both require work done in Premiere with Dynamic Links to After Effects.
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