User account dock is missing, account freezes after approximately one minute, need help...

Recently a friend used my computer and download JiTouch and BetterTouchTool to my machine without my permission. He may have made additional changes, and I'm not certain this was definitely the cause, but shortly after that - the next time I restarted my computer and signed into that particular account, my dock would not appear, if I attempt to view System Preferences (specifically the "Dock" option) or after approximately one minute, the machine will begin to freeze intermittently until about 30-60 more seconds when it's entirely unresponsive except for mouse movement.
Other accounts on the machine don't seem to have problems. I even removed the contents of ~/Library/Preferences without luck.
However, immediately after this issue occured I uninstalled those tools and removed their files from ~/Library/Preferences and seemed to resolve the issue. Then shortly after I installed JiTouch and uninstalled it to see if the issue re-appeared. It did not. Then I re-installed BetterTouchTool and eventually (after using the machine for an hour or two) the issue reappeared. I followed the same steps I had done before to stop the freezing but the issue persists.
Any ideas? Thanks!
PS I got a new battery a few days ago (around the same time this issue started occurring) and this battery is draining more rapidly then the system is reporting it should. Possibly connected?

Looks like I can't change my Keychain Access password without knowing the previous one, which is mysteriously different of course. Nothing left to do but delete it and start all over again. Bummer! I hope none of those have been altered too. I just don't understand how all this happened in the first place though. If my HD drive is encrypted, and Virus Barrier X6 is active and supposedly doing it's thing, how did anyone get into my computer and change all this?

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