Top Sites page locks up safari for many seconds

I've got a bit of a bloated Snow Leopard upgrade from Leopard and from Tiger before that.. I've also had my boot drive full in the past and worry a bit about defragmentation, not that there is any official way to really look into that.
Anyways when i create a new tab in my safari right now it pin wheels for sometimes 1-2 mins at a time.. I'm using istat menus pro and can see that the hdd is absolutely getting busy, bizarrely writing a lot, rather than reading a lot at 5mb/s. I can only assume perhaps its trying to update the top sites, but its very frustrating that it blocks.. it even starts to block the entire mac until it comes back.
Anyone got any suggestions? I'd love to be able to see WHAT files are being written/read at any one time, then i'd be able to know better WHAT is taking up all the time.
Anyone else experiencing this kind of performance?

This fixed another issue with Top Sites and I have a feeling it could help you here.
Goto ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari
There's a cache.db file there, it's probably quite large.
Delete this and the Webpage Previews folder.
Fresh versions will be created when you restart Safari.

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