Indesign pain when placing vector files

Hi All,
I need some help!!
I'm working on a fairly large catalogue where there is 300+ vector files placed into the Indesign document. As I place more I'm finding Indesign just get slower and slower. GRRRR!!!!! Even when I copy and past an image I have to wait. I'm sick of seeing that bloody beach ball.
I'm running CS5.
Am I doing something wrong? Is it just a case of Indesign not being able to handle that many .ai files???
PLEASE HELP. Because it's doing my head in!
umit.

Well I'd stop copy and pasting illustrator into inDesign straight away. That can introduce problems. I'm not a fan of that workflow, others are, but I don't recommend it.
Placing the files is the preferred method
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What version of InDesign are you using?
If it's CS5 or later go to Preferences> Interface and change the Live Screen Drawing to Delayed
See if that helps
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Also go to View>Display settings and choose "Typical".
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File size might be causing slowness issues due to overhead in the indesign file.
Try doing a File>Save As and save it as a new file name.
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If that doesn't fix it then I'd try
File>Export>InDesign Markup Language (IDML)
When you open that exported file in INdesign it will open as Untitled
That might speed up the flow
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