Bad lags and lasso won't close

I'm having some intermittent problems with Photoshop CS4 Extended that I don't have in CS3 or other applications.
When I'm working on a batch of files (I shot more than 2800 photos at weddings over the last two weeks), certain operations start lagging terribly. And some (the lasso) stops working at all.
The symptoms: Zoom becomes very slow (you have to wait between each zoom) and then it paints in rectangles until it rebuilds the image, even Levels can sometime lag so long that I reapply and get an undesired result.
But the worst one is the lasso and "magic selection" problem. The display of the selection path as I click or move the mouse lags so badly that I often don't know where I am or if the selection is working at all.
The lasso is the real disaster. When I double click, absolutely nothing happens. The polygon doesn't close. The only way I can be sure to close the polygon is by clicking exactly on the starting pixel. This, needless to say, is extraordinarily annoying. Often, after outlining a wedding dress or face, I have to press <ESC> and start all over again because the lasso wouldn't "close".
This only happens after working for a while, and then sometimes it goes away.
It's not the image size - they're all the same.
it's not the layers, there's only one.
It may be the history, but so far that hasn't been all that deep either.
It feels as though Photoshop CS4 may not be releasing memory, or something like that, leaving my session crippled.
My system is not a killer:
Pentium 4 2.8 mhz
3GB RAM
Nvidia Card with OpenGL turned off in Preferences/Performance
1 TB non-boot Western Digital SATA working drive (and scratch disk)
More than 1GB assigned to Photoshop in Preferences/Performance
I'm building a new Intel Core Quad machine this weekend with faster DDR3 RAM and SATA II.
Hopefully that will improve things.
But.... why am I seeing what looks like major resource issues in CS4 that I didn't see in CS3?
Is CS4 much more demanding on RAM and CPU, or am I just encountering bugs?
Thanks for any help.

Did you install the 11.0.1 patch for Photoshop? did you try resetting you preferences? http://forums.adobe.com/thread/375776?tstart=0

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