Weird Happenings with Trash Access, Desktop Item Movement, About this Mac

My computer appeared to working fine as off six or so hours ago, but when I went to move a word doc on my desktop to another place on my desktop, I notice something strange and unnerving. I could pick up the doc, highlight it, even open it, but I could not move it from one place to another on my desktop. The icon appears to move with my mouse after I click on it, as it always does, but when I go to drop it at the desired location, the icon does not "stick." There is just a quick blur as the translucent dragged copy zooms back to original. I can move icons from the desktop to a finder window or a folder on the desktop that isn't opened in a finder window, but I can drop a doc or a folder onto the desktop from the finder window. I have no idea what is going on with this.
As I was traversing my dock shortly after this initial discovery, I made another. When I click on my trash, the animated dock ceases movement and ability to function. the mouse pauses, does a spinning beachball, and in 2 minutes things appear to be normal. However, I just want to know what is going on, and I have no clue. When this occurs, I can still select items on the desktop and open them. However, I can not access the dock at all and I can't even use the command tab feature to switch apps.
Finally, as I went to sign up to post here, I noticed the final issue. I tried to click the "About this Mac" feature under the apple icon in the upper left corner and the info window would not open, hence the lack of info regarding my operating system.
Anyone? Help me please.

Hi JEDz, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move these files to the Desktop.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist
Test if the Finder/Desktop/Dock works right while in Safe Mode, reboot when complete, test again.

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