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I upgraded to Mac OS X 10.4.11 on 27 December and carried out the Security Update 2007-009 on January 11th. My system is now bang up-to-date with software levels. Unfortunately I've recently noticed that all application responses have become erratic, irrespective of what is running. For example, system start-up seems to be somewhat slow. Once the system has started, almost any/every operation suffers a delayed response - even clicking a menu item from the menu bar at the top of the screen can be met with a 2-3 second delay. If I play music in i-tunes with nothing else running the music will constantly be interrupted by several seconds delay. Even entering this message has been plagued with interruptions.
I've carried out the Apple Hardware Test (all OK), and have also run the First Aid option from the Disk Utility (clean) and repaired permissions to my disk files. Still the problem persists.
Is my next move to Archive and Re-Install OS X 10.4.7 and re-apply updates to 10.4.10 or have I missed something? If I have to re-install the OS, is the archive and install process robust as I don't want to lose large amounts of data and don't have available another drive to archive my data to.
Thanks in advance for you help

Hi IBod
Thanks for your rapid response.
There's about 205 Gb available on my hard drive.
The activity monitor shows system as not less than 90% idle
Doesn't appear to be anything unusual on console.log but system.log shows the following message being displayed 4-5 times per minute:
Jan 14 18:17:00 roger-smiths-computer kernel[0]: disk0s2: 0xe0030005 (UNDEFINED)
and the following message approx 1-2 times per minute:
Jan 14 18:18:46 roger-smiths-computer launchd: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/fax, sleeping
Not sure what they mean.
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