Strange SL behavior with other Applications

For the last couple of days I've been having problems with my SL install. The problem is that its hard to pinpoint where the problems are coming from.
Some of the 3rd party programs that I have installed all started having problems at the same time so I suspect that SL is the culprit. I have reinstalled all of them with no improvements:
Microsoft Office:
Word and Powerpoint freeze when I try quitting them. I have to force quit them to close them completely.
iStat Menu:
The memory and cpu usage menus do not display the top 5 processes using memory or CPU. All other functions in iStat Menu work fine. Strange!
Dropbox:
Dropbox slows down the Finder (cover flow and general file browsing is slow and jerky) when I launch it. The Dropbox context menu does not work either and no Dropbox related icons are displayed in my dropbox folder. I posted in Dropbox's forum and they helped me some but I'm still not convinced
http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=18212&replies=12#post-114185
Google Video/Audio plugin for Firefox, Google Chrome:
I am unable to use video/audio conference in either browser. No video icon is displayed in my gmail chat window.
I understand that this is a long list of somewhat unrelated problems but all them occurred at about the same time which hints to me that there are some kind of system problems (maybe with permissions).
I have repaired my permissions successfully, deleted the system caches with Onyx, and completely deleted and reinstalled all of the programs that are having problems. I have also started SL in safe boot but that didn't help.
Please help me! Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Message was edited by: themacfreak

This is what I found in my system log:
Mar 21 10:42:49 NYMBAR com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[345] ([0x0-0x13f13f].com.google.GoogleTalkPluginD[1708]): Exited with exit code: 255
Mar 21 10:44:06 NYMBAR com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[345] ([0x0-0x140140].com.google.GoogleTalkPluginD[1710]): Exited with exit code: 255
Mar 21 10:45:23 NYMBAR com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[345] ([0x0-0x141141].com.google.GoogleTalkPluginD[1717]): Exited with exit code: 255
This error message keeps on repeating. Any suggestions?
I fixed the iStat Menu problem! The ipfw was blocking port 5204 which iStat needs to use. This error message led me to this conclusion:
Mar 21 01:09:25 NYMBAR Firewall[59]: 63000 Deny TCP 127.0.0.1:58876 127.0.0.1:5204 in via lo0
Mar 21 01:09:26 NYMBAR Firewall[59]: 63000 Deny TCP 127.0.0.1:58877 127.0.0.1:5204 in via lo0
Mar 21 01:09:26 NYMBAR Firewall[59]: 63000 Deny TCP 127.0.0.1:58876 127.0.0.1:5204 in via lo0
Mar 21 01:09:27 NYMBAR Firewall[59]: 63000 Deny TCP 127.0.0.1:58877 127.0.0.1:5204 in via lo0
Mar 21 01:09:27 NYMBAR Firewall[59]: 63000 Deny TCP 127.0.0.1:58876 127.0.0.1:5204 in via lo0
I'm glad that is fixed but I still have the Office problem and the google talk plugin problem. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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