12 Hours to Install Leopard? Combo update 4 hrs

Hello and TIA
I have the unit below, and it required 12hr to install Leopard 10.5.2 from disc. (erase and install)
The combo updater as indicated by the Software update is now requiring about 4 hours. Is this normal
The reason I did a complete erase and install was my MPro was getting slow and the beach balls. I ran checks on the disc, appears fine? RAM appears fine also
HELP!
Don
I unplugged all the unessesary devices and etc, ran Disk Utility after install?
Any ideas?

Curious and perhaps helpful. Your ratio of installing Leopard to the update is 3:1 which is very close to what I got, only much slower. I just thought of this.
Your numbers are consistent and it takes your optical drive out of the equation.
Your HD may have bad sectors or you may not have enough RAM, but whatever it is, it's simply slower.

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