A familiar 'Illustrator CS3 on iMac G5' problem?

Hello folks,
I should possibly post this on the Adobe forums too, but I'd like to cover the 'hardware' angle here first.
I'm a graphic designer. I've been working on a multiple-page newsletter in Illustrator CS3 (granted, I should normally use InDesign CS3, but I had to stay with Illustrator for this particular assignment). Each page is on its own layer and the entire document has character and paragraph styles applied to its type.
The problem is it's taking absolutely AGES to format any type. Any action, from applying a style to even deleting a single space takes no less than 3 to 4 seconds. You can only imagine how frustrating this is! (not to mention the amount of time I'm seeing eaten up...)
Yesterday, some layers seemed to respond faster than others, but today all were identically slow. Each page is a simple layout with just one image and one block of text - so it's not even a heavy/complicated file. I have lots of unused RAM left when working (over 1GB unused as I check on the iStat widget), so no issue there. However, I notice the fans become louder and the CPU is maxed out at about 95% usage when performing these tasks!
How can this be? Is there anything I should do to 'optimise' either the application or the system itself? I'm not sure if this is a hardware or software issue at present.
Does anyone recognise a pattern here from similar experience? Any advice would be most helpful.
Thanks much.
Steve.

Boot up from your System Install Tiger DVD & run the repair disk/permissions options.
You may also wish to do the following if your fans are still running louder than usual.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301733 iMac G5: How to Reset the SMU (iMac G5, the iMac G5 (Ambient Light Sensor), and the iMac G5 (iSight)).

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