Consistant Brush Lag in Photoshop, need help solving

I know there have been others who've had this problem in the past, and I have researched and looked through various possible causes and finding nothing.
I'm using a laptop with pretty good standard graphics and memory, more than what I was using specs-wise compared to my previous desktop. I use them for my graphics work and digital art, but photoshop has been acting inappropriately laggy concerning brushes and pencilstrokes! Everything else tends to be fine. I have tried messing with the photoshop pref file, reinstalling wacom drivers (compatible for Win7 32bit), changing the win7 desktop Aero background, managing things running in memory, even looked for updates to the GPU which apparently said it was up to date after i installed it!
This has been bugging me and I use Photoshop7 and PS CS2 for my digital art and design and it bugs me that I cannot use the brushes or pencils and related tools. The strokes do not catch up with the motion of my pen and instead either dissappear or create stiff lines, occasionally loosening up. But this needs to be solved so I can know what to do incase of future times.
My stats are:
Toshiba Satelite Laptop
AMD Single Core 2ghz Processor
2gig RAM Memory
ATI Radeon 3100 256mb GPU integrated
250gb HDD
Help will be greatly appreciated! Also want to note that it is PS and Gimp that I see this only happening in, but other art programs run like butter on my laptop.

First of all, thank you so much for taking the time to try to help out. It
is much appreciated.
The two things that first come to mind are: I have many friends in the
industry who paint solely in Photoshop and do just fine. My computer is
technically "old," but the specs are still just fine—even the graphics card
is the exact same one that is in the new Cintiq Companions (the all-in-one
computer/cintiq machines).
And, more so, I was painting on it for a few weeks without noticing
anything. A part of me wonders, did I just not notice it until it became
dramatically worse?
I do remember painting fur, which requires making tons of small brush
strokes over an extended period of time, and I don't remember there being
any lag.
By the way, I forgot to mention: I've even tried going into the Performance
preferences and disabling the graphics card altogether. No luck. Still an
issue.
As far as painting at 100%: I do notice an amount of improvement. The one
brush stamp, or space, whatever you call it, issue only happened on the
first brush stroke (every time) and then just once otherwise. The lag was
tremendous—and I compared it to Painter's performance, which had no issues
whatsoever.
I am really hoping to be able to rely on Photoshop more and more, as its
tools for other aspects of image manipulation are far more robust than
Painter's. And the working compatibility with Adobe InDesign, Flash, and
Adobe Media Encoder are sooooooo useful for speeding up the workflow.
Hopefully we can find out what's going wrong.
I'm truly baffled on this one.
Bryan Beus
Artist and Author
www.bryanbeus.com
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