Slow performance -- Safari a pig

I have an imac with 800 Mhz PowerPC G4, with 768 MB SDRAM installed. OS X (10.4.5 Tiger)
Recently I have experienced dramatic slowdowns in performance which I think I can link to my RAM filling up and leaving only a tiny bit of space. The Activity Monitor shows only 20 MB free, with 72MB wired, 388 active, and 285 inactive. When I reboot, this changes dramatically, to about 400 MB free, 72 wired, and the active and inactive reduced. This is with photoshop and safari and mail open, but nothing else.
It takes less than an hour for the performance to decrease and the RAM to fill up. The largest inactive user is safari at 250+ MB.
Any suggestions as to what is happening? I ran Norton and killed a virus found on two files, but that did not change things.
iMac G4 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

First, you may find the forum for G4 iMacs more helpful, as this forum is for the Intel iMac. Do you have all the latest updates on your computer?
Is Norton running all the time? Because AntiVirus apps are quite known for causing the system to slow down dramatically. And how does your computer work when you are using another browser, such as Camino or Firefox?

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