After Effects Freezes on Rendering, NEED HELP

Hey everyone. So I'm on the verge of tears because After Effects CS5 is having a huge lag in rendering. I recently installed the whole CS5 Master Collection, and I found there was a slight lag in opening it, updating the preferences, and even closing out of the program. But didn't think anything of it. Often times I've gotten hung up on the beach ball of death.
I went for the first time to render things, which an identical comp in AE CS4 rendered out lightening fast, but in CS5 the same comp took about 5 minutes of sitting on the beach ball before it even started rendering and then another 5 minutes of more beach ball fun to finally finish. I'm on a Mac and my system stats are as follows:
Processor: 2x3.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Memory: 18 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
OSX 10.5.8
After Effects CS5 10.0.1.19
I thought it was some type of DivX issue, and deleted anything relating to that, but it didn't help. Whatever help anybody could provide as to the culprit would be appreciative. It's got me pretty freaked out...

So it seems like a combination of turning off OpenGL and Multiprocessing seemed to do the trick. Have one or the other on seemed to cause the freeze-ups.
I'd like to ask if this is a problem just isolated to OS X 10.5.8 or not?I've always had Multiprocessing on since CS4, why turn it off now, did having it on to begin with help at all for renders? Now that it's off and OpenGL, will that adversely affect anything i.e. increasing render times etc?
Why have two options available if it's going to lead to problems, and people have to end up turning them off?
For what it's worth, I've included screenshots of my own computer's info and the selections when multi-processing are on in AE CS5.

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