Trouble quitting applications in Lion

iTunes, iPhoto, and now Fire Fox don't seem to want to quit. iTunes and iPhoto will quit (after several minutes) and if I try to force quit either, they are not reported as "not responding". Fire Fox may be an abberation because when it would not respond, when forced quit, it reported that it was not responding. This has been going on for several weeks. I'm running Lion 10.7.2 with an early 2011 MBP 15. Ran repair permissions (finds the usual suspects, and ran disc repair, it finds nothing).
Any ideas?

iTunes, iPhoto, and now Fire Fox don't seem to want to quit. iTunes and iPhoto will quit (after several minutes) and if I try to force quit either, they are not reported as "not responding". Fire Fox may be an abberation because when it would not respond, when forced quit, it reported that it was not responding. This has been going on for several weeks. I'm running Lion 10.7.2 with an early 2011 MBP 15. Ran repair permissions (finds the usual suspects, and ran disc repair, it finds nothing).
Any ideas?

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