Textedit slow to save, slow to print

On my iBook, Textedit has recently been very slow to save documents...two to three minutes for a file with only the word "test" typed in it, for instance. The first few times it happened I interrupted the spinning beach ball and force quit the application, but I decided to try to wait it out and discovered that it actually does save consistently, albeit after a long time.
Printing gets the same response.
When I transfer the same file to my iMac, it saves and prints fine.
I have trashed the plist file, but this didn't help. Any ideas?

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