Unstable softwares after the update to OSX 10.6.6

Hello,
I just uptated my OS X to 10.6.6. Trying to use my basic softwares is now very inconvenient. Safari, iTunes and firefox are subject to constant freezes, other softwares are slow.
I don't know if it is the update's fault, but the timeframe coincides. The freezes occur so often that I have to post this from my iPhone.
Please help

I agree, this update better be quickly usurped by a much better one. My new laptop has not been anything near acceptable like the 2006 MacBook Pro. I'm actually booking it in for the Geniuses to make it right because I am entitled to it for the large sums of money it costs to be in the Mac club and have nice shiny things.
I have two theories - either Snow Leopard was released way too early or my machine came with a rotten install. Either way, I want it "New like the day it came out of the box please" - total wipe, total reinstall of everything I have paid for. Nothing more, nothing less.
Maybe then it will be like those utopian days of trouble free Mac I remember. Here's hoping.

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