Agonizingly Slow: am I missing something?

I'm a Mac fan, have several about the house. I recently decided to try upgrading my iPhoto library to Aperture. The library contains about 14,500 images.
I'm running a quad-core 2.5GHz G5 PowerMac with 5GB DDR2 ram, and the PCI express Radeon X1900 display adapter.
Importing the iPhoto library took many hours (the first two times it appeared to have hung up, as the import seems to get slower as it nears the end of the roll-set. I have 255 iPhoto rolls; by about 230, it took many minutes to import each roll, even if it only had 5 pictures in it, and it appeared to be necessary to "budge" Aperture by clicking around in its window to force it to make progress.
Once I got a complete import, I was disappointed to see that every operation in the library, or within an Event in the library, was torture. Spinning Pizza at nearly all times: between rolls, between images, and scrolling the image thumbnail panel was somewhat less than interactive (charitably put).
I've never had an experience quite like this one so I'm giving Apple the benefit of the doubt here. For example, the new iLife '08 upgrade to iPhoto is excellent--it seems to be greatly speeded up!
Perhaps I should stick to iPhoto, then, though I was looking forward to the light table, version management and especially multiple-vault support, since my library of photos is very important to me (even though I'm just an amateur).
The one thing I can think of as the problem is that I have the X1900 GT card built for PowerPC Macs vs. the X1900 XT card mentioned in the installation notes. Though it's hard to imagine that accounts for the whole problem; surely a 4x2.5GHz machine is not obsolete yet!?
Any thoughts appreciated; thanks very much.

There are three likely reasons for a big slowdown:
1. Previews are being generated. Turn them off.
http://www.bagelturf.com/aparticles/previews/index.html
2. Thumbnails are being generated. You're stuck with that.
3. Antivirus. Turn it off if you have it.
4. Combination of G5s and graphics card is maxing out something (bus, disk, RAM).

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