Adjustment Brush Effect Problem

I notice that when I move the adjustment brush around curves the effect doesn't follow my pattern but takes sharp straight angles from the start to the finish. For instance if I'm changing exposure in a U-shaped pattern I get the effect in a V-shape from the start to the tip of the "U" and back to the end. Sometimes it will just take the shortcut from the start to the finish and not follow the pattern I laid down. The only way to get what I want is to move very slowly. Way too slow for an effective workflow.
Any idea what would cause this?
Thanks,
Tom
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Pentium 4
2 Meg of memory

I'd guess that it is simply a very intensive task, and that it needs further fine tuning.
MMV, but for me the brush is just too unresponsive, sluggish and fussy for time limited professional work at this time. If you take it very slow and aren't in any hurry anyway, it may be satisfactory.
There are a lot of posts on this issue, so I hope it is one Adobe will be addressing soon. By the way, the brush behaved much the same in the beta version, so I suspect the LR team has had problems optimizing this feature, but had a marketing timeline to meet and released it in less than optimal readiness..

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