Just a guess but it sounds like it's time for the Genius Bar.
Bob
I've read the discussions about decreased macbook pro performance, but felt that the scenarios were a bit different than mine. I thought I'd post my symptoms and cross my fingers for some advice.
I'm using:
MacBook Pro 2.33 GHz intel Core 2 Duo with 4 GB 667 MHZ DDR2 SDRAM. OS is 10.6.8
This computer has been fine for the past 10 months. I'm a graphic designer running entire Adobe CS apps all at once. Here in the past month, nothing seems to work. I'll reboot, do a P-Ram Flash, wait for it to load at a painstaking rate. I'll open a simple app like... oh, say firefox. I'll have to wait over a minute just for the window to even appear. Now, getting into CS makes me want to slit my wrists. I have to hard restart maybe 4 times a day. After a fresh restart, InDesign takes a good 5 minutes to startup. Today I had the time to repair permissions. Disk Utility said it was going to take 2 hours to repair permissions. I didn't have that kind of time. But in 10 years of being a mac user, I have never seen it take more than 10 minutes to repair permissions.
I do not store any data on the internal drive. Everything is saved to externals. I'm not worried about losing data. I am worried however that I may off myself in the time it takes to do simple tasks. Please help!

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