Trying to get my old macbook working like new again.

I have an old black laptop, probably around 2005/6 not too sure. I dont really have any of the manuals or any of the disks anymore.
I think from years of use from a teenage girl (and a few new batteries) its giving up. It become really really slow and its got to the point where its quicker to use my phone for things or the horrible computers at college.
Really was thinking of wiping it completely clean which i was hoping would give it a new lease of life. I know all my passwords for things like facebook and my emails, i have an external drive i can copy all my files that i need onto, whats the next step?
There is noting apart from photograhs and a few word doc's that i need. I am running version 10.6.8 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM.

No, but Apple is selling the disk on their store website.

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Attachments:
Correlator.vi ‏38 KB
sample.cpp ‏6 KB

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in detail: The graph arrays do get initialized but in the same frame all control get initialized to default. That is completely wrong! one does either one or the other but not both and definitly not in the same frame because of uncertainety which is executed first.
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