Adobe CS2 on 512MB RAM? Rosetta?

I've got a 2.0GHz Macbook completely stock. I've been attempting to run CS2, but the system slowdown is just unbearable. Running more than one of the programs crashes the other, and trying to run any one of the programs along with something else such as Safari or iChat is just nonsense. Also, after running any one of these the rest of the system seems to run pretty slow (even after quitting). Can I simply attribute this to only having 512MB of RAM? I'm "upgrading" from:
1.0GHz eMac with 640MB of RAM
1.33GHz iBook with 768MB of RAM
800MHz Powermac G4 with 1.5GHz of RAM
Even the measly eMac puts the Macbook to shame when running the Creative Suite. Will upgrading the RAM surely put my Macbook over the top, or is this increadible Rosetta slowdown pretty normal?

I think the crashing is simply a complete lack of RAM. While it should still work due to Mac OS X's memory management it's possible that the core required memory is too high for your 512MB.
In reality I would upgrade your RAM to 1GB or more regardless so I would do that and see how things go. Hopefully your crashing will disappear at that point.
EDIT : I would bite the bullet and upgrade to 2GB. It will certainly help you now and CS3 is surely going to have higher requirements than CS2 so it'll be nice to have.

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All the current Macs, including the MacBooks run on Intel processors. The Adobe CS2 software is not 'Universal', i.e. not written to run in these newer macs, but they will run in 'Rosetta' mode in the Intel Macs. They will not run native on the macs and may be "slower" in performance.
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