Art work in album flow mode stutters before displaying.  Not enough RAM?

I love the addition of the full-screen Album Art flow mode (sorry for not knowing precisely what it's called).
Problem is, you can only scroll through 10-15 albums before it starts to lag behind. What would cause this, and I can improve it?
I've set my Mini up as a dedicated Music Server. It's a new 1.66 GHz Intel Mac Mini with 512mb of RAM. Too little RAM perhaps?? Currently, I have 600 Albums (stored as Apple-lossless files) all stored on an outboard LaCie fire-wire HD - how about this? ..Might this be the cause? If it get's no worse, I suppose I could live with it. However, I still have another 150+ albums to add.
Thanks for reading, thanks for responding.

Thanks again, Aryel.
I have two Apple computers: An iMac (which has 1.5gb ram) and my Mini, which has just 512m. ..I need to change my profile.
Unfortunately, I can't store my music on my Mini. ..After I'm done loading all of my CDs (and those about to be given to me by my dad) I'll have nearly 1000 (lossless encode) cds loaded - wayyyyy too many for the Mini's modest HD. ..In fact, at some point I'll probably have to move the files from my 250gb LaCie onto a larger (500gb or perhaps even a 1terabyte) HD. Obviously, I have a music obsession that borders on "unhealthy"
Can you hazard a guess as to whether it's more likely to be a RAM issue than an "external HD" one?? There's no way around having to store the music on an external HD, but I can and will upgrade the RAM if I stand at least a good chance of seeing an improvement.
Thanks!

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