Mouse pointer hangs when switching applications

I have noticed that occasionally my mouse will hang (freeze, stall, get stuck, whatever you like) for about 0.5 seconds when I switch applications either by cmd-tab or by clicking with the mouse. I have not figured out a good way to replicate the problem but it happens pretty consistently on my computer (MBP2.2 with Leopard) and I was wondering if there was anyone else having similar issues. Thanks.

How many programs do you have open, what are they, and how much RAM is in your MacBook?
A pause during application switches often means that OS X needs to page data in or out of the virtual memory swap file on disk because it can't hold everything you're currently doing in the RAM that's available.

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