Genie effect and Exposé on my iMac G5

Hi there,
well, this topic comes after several days of testing, thinking, testing...
so...
Why does the OS X genie effect isn't smooth on my iMac? I mean, it has a Radeon 9600 Pro 128MB, which it's quite better than the Geforce FX 5200 64MB I had on my previous PowerMac G5 (dual 1.8GHz Rev.A), there must be something mysterious I don't know about videocards...
My iMac is already set to "maximum performance" but the genie effect isn't as smooth as it was on my PowerMac G5. If I set to "automatic" the dock animation runs at 1/2 framerate as it should.
I guess these sort of FX are not related (not directly at least...) to CPU speed...aren't them?
I've had bad experiences with the dock animation too... one day I discovered it was not as smooth as before, than I discovered that if the OS X desktop gets crowded with icons, you loose some smoothness in the GUI, I guess it's strange, but GUI smoothness came back when I decided to move all the stuff inside ONE folder (still on the desktop).
Now...the desktop isn't crowded anymore, but genie effect and exposè aren't as smooth as they should be, it's far from being smooth, even with one little window.
any advice?
(I've just tried ATIcellerator, but it doesn't change anything even at +33% overclock...RAM/CORE, which is something I wouldn't recommend on an iMac)

Defragging your drive will do nothing, as Tiger automatically defraggs itself on the fly.
I noticed a significant difference in the performance of Expose if I had multiple windows open up at a time - even if it was nothing more than several Safari windows. My guess is that performance depends on memory load.
One other thing I noticed was that litlle things like that would slow down if I left apps open, particularly Safari. If I closed all apps, then reopened them - without rebooting - performance was much better.

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