CS3 on Mac OSX (the "spinning rainbow of distress..." :)

hi guys,
I'm running the CS3 suite on a new iMac (OSX 10.6.8), and since I tried to do an online update, I've been having horrible problems with the "spinning rainbow" mac cursor. I tried re-installing to undo the update (DW only), but the spinning rainbow is still a curse.
i don't use the other apps much, mainly Photoshop & Bridge; they seem ok.
This seems to be taking place in one current site definition in particular, and mostly with some HTML newsletter projects I'm designing. These pages typically have a lot of the older deprecated codes in them, and have a number of image files (30 or so) referenced to files actually on the server, rather than on the local site (on my mac).
So, every time I attempt to scroll down the page with the vertical drawbar, it halts half-way down and I have wait 10 sec or so for the cursor to return. Every time I make a change a change in code (split screen) and click on refresh or click anywhere on the design window (to refresh), I have to wait about another 10 sec. So every change, I make, every attempt to navigate to a new part of the page, or click anywhere different in the document, I get this extended wait time for the cursor to return to normal, which is quite frustrating.
The page is not real huge, maybe 25k in size.
The only other "out of the ordinary" formatting, is I had to break the code lines up into shorter lines because the email broadcast system will not broadcast long lines of code, so, I just go into code view and put code breaks in the page so DW doesn't keep wrapping longer lines to contain a huge amount of characters. I break the code lines visually so the end of the code line is broken neatly about the width of the code window page. This all should have absolutely no effect on the cursor.
If anyone has any ideas on how to circumvent this problem, please reply!
(i'm running a demo version of Lil Snitch firewall, but I've given DW access rights, so don't think this is the issue)
thanks!
Gary

These pages typically have a lot of the older deprecated codes in them, and have a number of image files (30 or so) referenced to files actually on the server...
My gut tells me all those absolute refs to images on the remote server are causing DW to choke as it attempts to refresh that newsletter page. Have you tried working offline (no internet connection) to see if that makes any difference?
Nancy O.
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