What's slowing down Safari 4.0.3 ?

Lets say a site has 43 items. Safari will load 42 in the blink of an eye and then take forever (2 to 5 min.) to load the last item (as per the Status Bar at the bottom of the window). Same thing happens if a site has 240 items; Safari loads 239 faster than I can type these words, and hang for at least 2 min. on the last item. Same thing if a site has only 5 items.
I use a 2,4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac and Snow Leopard.
Is there a procedure I could do to correct this problem?

Hi Carolyn,
I emptied the cache, reset Safari, deleted the Preferences files, etc. as suggested but Safari is still searching "the last item" for a few minutes. The article you refer to says that […] +if your cache gets too big or corrupted as your computer will spend excess time searching the cache when it could fetch the data from the internet in less time+. Could it be that Safari is taking all this time to load a page because it's going through all those Top Sites it keeps?

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zhey Rick, can you goto...
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{quote}
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{quote}
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Note to self, check date of post!
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