Upgrading to Lion yield system ununsable

Since upgrading to Lion some icons in my menubar disappeared:
macbook battery indicator
wi-fi
bluetooth among other,
when this occur, other things stop working correctly:
spotlight is not responding (beachball when hovering on top of spotlight in the menu bar)
system preferences hangs whenever the "network" part is clicked
no network is functioning (no wi-fi)
the login screen displays an empty wi-fi icon (like if I was not connected)
One single thing seems to be working:
reboot the computer in safe mode, then in normal mode.
However, the preceding will work until the next mac reboot only. After a regular reboot, the problem would re-occur up to the next "safe reboot".
The following have been tried with a level 2 mac support specialist over the phone.
Fixing permissions
emptying caches in home and system libraries
removing start-up items
creating a new user account (problem persist in the other account)
removing stuff inside the input method folders
creating a new "network location" when the problem is not triggered
I don't know if this is anything related but for me, FaceTime says registration servers cannot process my request at the time being when I want to log-in and FileVault 2 refuses to encrypt the disk pretending not having permission. I also was unable to log-in into anything after my Lion install. I has to reset my root password and re-create my account with same info as describe on this forum to get Lion started..
Definitely not the smootest transition one could expect.

I'll add my name to the list of unhappy people following an 'upgrade' to Lion.
Same problem as the original poster, menu bar frozen. CPU temp up at 80 deg C, fans at 6200rpm all the time and SystemUIServer is running at +75%, system is using 50% CPU. Battery life is half of what I used to get.
My Macbook is unuseable in it's current state for any longer than a few minutes. Now having to use my Windows PC as can't stand the constant fan noise. Also concerned about the long term effect on the internal components.
In my opinion Apple has released a poor quality product here. I read that Lion was not ready for shipping and I wish I had waited a few weeks for the first update.
Let's have a patch soon please or my Windows PC may be a permanent fixture.

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Upgrading to Lion yield system ununsable

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