Added memory but....

Hello Everyone,
I am very new to Mac so please be patient on how I explain things. First I want to say how much I love my Power Mac G5. I love the way the power Mac G5 looks and the way Mac OS 10.4 runs!
However, I think i may have a slight problem. I bought the computer used off ebay with a 22-inch wide screen monitor. Everything works great but I thought since it came with a ton of programs and only 1gig of ram I would add more.
Yesterday I went to Compusa and bought 2 512DDR PC3200 memory chips. Well thinking this would help speed up my computer. It seem to have no effect. So I decided to do a little searching to see if anything was hogging up resources.
I opened Activity monitor and found a program called Virex that was taking up like 80% of the processor resources. After doing some research I download a program that uninstalled Virex.
Thinking now everything should run very smooth. It almost seems to run worse after uninstalling the Virex and adding the memory. The harddrive is working much more and I noticed the fans kick higher and lower quite a bit, just from surfing the web and IM.
As of right now Activity Monitor reads
CPU
% User 8.00
% System 6.00
% Nice 0.00
% idle 86.00
Memory
Wired 141.43 MB
Active 241.09 MB
Inactive 500.72 MB
Used 883.72 MB
Free 1.14GB
Disk
Reads in: 23437
Writes out: 10558
Data read 556.02 MB
Data Written 244.77 MB
Would some kinda disk defragmenting help with speeding things up? I think when I checked disk warrior it said something like 30% was fragmented.
Anyway please give me any info you can!
Thanks much!
Mike

Thanks everyone for the reply. Sorry I was in Vegas all last week and was really unable to reply. I have ordered a Mac OSX DVD set brand new for $67.00.
I wanted to just update everyone on a new issue LOL. This morning I used the G5. Everything was going good; I was using Yahoo IM, Netscape, & itost (I think it is called). Anyway, I got the Kernel panic screen. Where everything locks up and goes gray. Then it tells you to reboot. Well I held down the power button. The system shut down, when I started the system back up. It went to the bootup screen with the white back ground, gray apple logo, and a spinning progress bar. But it does nothing after that; I tried again and again but it just sits there. I hear the hard drive click a few times but that’s it. If I let it sit long enough it will switch to a blue background with progress bar. Then from there it will just be a blue background and let me move the mouse. But there are no programs or anything for that matter.
Really strange, could this be a much bigger issue like a bad hard drive?
Thanks
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