Thanks well it said to do the MacKeeper first so I did that and supposedly there were all these critical issues which they fixed some of before asking for my credit card number, so that was the end of that.
I did download one of the older versions of the OnyX because the first one wouldn't take because I have 10.6.8 (wow I didn't realize I was so out of date) and there were these options on the top of the screen, "verify" and "clean" and I did the verify thing which looks to be the same program that is on the Mac itself in Disk Utility. I did this last night and there were all these disk permission errors which I supposedly fixed but they are still there for the OnyX one as well? And then after the big long list comes up, the "execute" button is still there so I clicked it again and the same big list comes up so I'm wondering 1) why is it saying it's fixed but it's not and, 2) What is a disk permission error anyway?
So once I finished with that I clicked "clean" and that supposedly cleaned out everything at least that makes me feel better when I do that anyway.
Thanks, guess I am not too savvy on these things.