Spotlight and Cmd-O to open a file cause machine to freeze

I have reinstalled Tiger and this continues to happen. Can open files by dbl click in filer window, but the spotlight failure is troublesome. Just get the beachball if I search or use Cmd-O to try to open a file from within an app.
This happens both on G4 1GHz and 1.67 GHz.
Grateful for any ideas.
pqb

First, Safe Boot , (holding Shift key down at bootup), use Disk Utility from there to Repair Permissions, move these files to the Desktop.
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.spotlight.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist
Then Reset Launch Services...
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/resetlaunchservices.html#Anchor-Reset-47857
Reboot once more.
Try Spotless...
http://www.fixamac.net/software/spot/
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.

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