Imovie 09, slow, laggy performance, frequent hangs. Any reasons?

The Short:
iMovie 09 is slow and lags but my computer exceeds system requirments.
The Long:
Playing anything in full screen view lags. Many animations (as in ones performed by the computer) such as progress bars, and skimming just jerk along. Progress bars are not smooth and many of the titles etc appear jumpy inside imovie. Also, quite often, selecting a menu item results in a 5 second hang, with a spinning beach ball. This is annoying as everything worked quite fine in iMovie 08. My computer far exceeds system requirements (2.0GHZ Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB RAM, 100GB+ free hard drive space, one of those new 9400m graphics cards) yet things are so slow. Anybody have any fixes or reasons why, thanks!
PS, Latest iMovie build 8.0.4

I don't know all the ins and outs of the "Late '08" aluminium MacBook (..my Beloved has one, but she's taken it to work). So I can't remember what options it has under System Preferences>Energy Saver.
But I'd look there and see if you can switch between normal and High processor performance .or simply plug the the laptop into the mains instead of running it on battery power.
You should be able to specify a High processor speed (..you can on most other Mac laptops, I think..) and that should help, if it's not already running at its highest speed.
Whilst you're in System Prefs, check all your other settings, e.g; Displays, to make sure that everything's optimised for best running. And, of course, you'll want plenty of free space on your hard disc to store your clips and Projects ..especially if you are using hi-def video.
"..titles, maps, or themes.." have to be read into memory off the Mac's hard disc, and it sounds as if either (a) you've got a lot of other programs or documents open, clogging up memory, or (b) you just have insufficient memory for smooth running of editing, coping with HD material, and reading extra material off the hard disc and into memory.
I have 4 GB of RAM, and your laptop can take a max of 6GB (..according to MacTracker (click on that blue link), even though Apple say a max of 4GB).
- Ah, no; she hasn't taken it to work: I've just checked its Sys Prefs>Energy Saver: you should un-tick the box "Put hard disk(s) to sleep when possible" ..that'll keep everything running nice and fast -
So; keep the hard disc spinning, turn off everything else except iMovie, and add more RAM.

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