Two strange issues

On my 24" 3.06ghz iMac (4G RAM) I'm having a few issues. The two that are really bugging me are the following, any help deeply appreciated...
Dock freezing on right-click.
If I right-click dock icons to pull up their menu about 50% percent of the time the dock just freezes for up to 30 seconds before responding.
I have hiding & magnification on and the dock will appear and the icon magnify but there it hangs...
Long delay in writing thumbnails.
This ones a bit harder to explain so bear with me... best way is to give an example - I want to save a document as a PDF so I go to print etc & select PDF. When you choose save it pops up a window with the location to save to.
In that window is a column with little thumbs of the files already at that location.
I get a spinning 'beachball' for up to 30 seconds as it painfully slowly draws the individual thumbs.
Any ideas folks?

Does Console or Activity Monitor give any clues as to what is happening during the delays? They are in the Applications/Utilities folder.

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