Hey everyone, I have a late 2006 17" Core 2 Duo iMac. I got it about two years ago, June or July of 2007. Lately, I've been having some weird problems with it, seemingly OS related. There are a couple of things that are bugging me: 1. It takes a really long time to start up, it hangs on the grey screen for about 5 minutes, and it didn't do this before. I did upgrade it to have 3Gb of RAM, and a 500Gb HD. I haven't found any way online to reset the firmware... 2. In 10.5.7, random things have trouble. One of these being dragging in certain applications, notibly iTunes, where after about 5 minutes I can't move songs at all, when I click and drag, it acts like I just clicked and didn't keep dragging. I tried re-installing iTunes, deleting my iTunes prefs, and also deleting iTunes completely, and reinstalling it from scratch, and also moving my iTunes library... In Final Cut Express, I can't drag the playhead for more then a few seconds, and then it lets go, even when I don't let go of the mouse. GoLive does the same thing as iTunes. So does the finder, but only in Icon and List view. (I'm not able to drag files around...) 3. Random freezes. These started recently.. A few days ago, I logged out of my account (Which I don't do very often) and when I came back a few hours later and tried to log it, it had frozen. A couple times I had something very strange happen... The desktop froze. the Finder was fine, I could move and browse the finder windows I had open, but the icons on the desktop acted like they weren't there. Then today, I activated Spaces, and when I tried to click on a space, it locked up. A couple times it hasn't woken from sleep. Other then all this, it works fine, I don't have any other problems, or any other crashes other then what I stated. All these things don't effect me much, and there are ways around them. However... I'm pretty sure this means something is wrong in my system. I've run permissions checks, disk checks, Disk Warrior, and the hardware test. A few months ago I tried an Archive and Install, with moving my user info back. None of this has made any difference. Anything else to try before a complete archive and install without moving my user data back?? Thanks everyone for reading through all this.. and thanks for any help you could give me.
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