Slow finder on a 17" Al

[khyber courchesne]

My finder has slowed to a crawl.  Takes a few minutes to open a folder, even
from with a ³save as² box within a different application like photoshop.
Sometimes it just hangs altogether and I need to force quit.  It doesn¹t
even always quit with a force quit.

I¹ve tried trashing my pref file, updating prebinding, dumping caches, fsck,
repair permissions etc.  I¹ve read somewhere about a .DS file, but I don¹t
know what that is.

Any suggestions?

Or do I need to reinstall panther????

This is silly.

Thanks.