Final Cut Pro is Sluggish

This is only my second post to forums, so again, forgive me if I break protocol.
I have Final Cut Pro 4.5. For the last three years it has been doing great. No real problems (a couple of the original audio filters crash FCP when I run them) but I've steered clear of them or used them in Soundtrack with no problem.
But that's not why I'm writing. About three weeks ago, I noticed that after about half an hour or so of editing in Final Cut, it would start to get sluggish. Even moving the scrubber would take a few seconds. I have 1G RAM and have had it since I got the computer three years ago. NO problems until just recently. When I restart FCP it runs fine again, until about another half hour in to it.
Let me know if any additional info is needed and I will do my best to supply it.
Thanks!
Brett

Thank you. I have tried to repair Permissions in Disk Utlity and did the whole Delete Preferences thing. Found those on the boards here before I posted. Sorry, I should have mentioned that. My bad. I will try the Applecare disks. Didn't know about those.
As for more details, it is FCP 4.5, I just loaded OS 10.4.10 But this strarted BEFORE the install. I bought Tiger because I thought it might help (and I wanted the New iLife). Quicktime version 7.2. I have three hard drives, Two are in the PowerMac Tower itself (came with them 250G each) and I have one External USB drive, but I use this one for archiving only, none of my footage is on it. Uh, let's see. My favortie color is blue, I like long walks in the park and my Apple MOTION doesn't work any more after my install of Tiger, but I already posted about that in the Motion discussion area.
I really can't think of much else. I will try the Applecare and report back what happened.

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