Unresponsive Finder then responsive, then unresponsive....

SL 6.0 and 6.0.1 both are extremely unresponsive for several minutes. Then I regain control for a few seconds and then loose it again. Sometimes the control regained is for a few minutes. The hard drive activity is great during the beach ball moments and suddenly stops when I regain control.
All apps are the latest. DiskWarrior and permissions have been repaired. Dioblotin was used to disable most start up items without success. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks, Jim

Hi all. I'm new to the forums so forgive me if I'm barging in on your discussion but I have a related problem. My Mac Pro if behaving very strangely. When I command+I click on any file or folder my Finder becomes unresponsive and I get the beachball of doom! This is a recent development and nothing has changed in terms of the machines' setup. Also if I plug in any firewire or USB drive to the front or back ports I have to restart the machine before they become moounted and on that note my machine will not restart. I get to the blue screen with the cursor in the corner and that's where it hangs. Before this happened I used disk utility to check permission and I repaired those that were not correct, I verified the disk and it was fine. Please, please, please tell me that you can help or point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it.
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☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
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