CS3 on Snow Leopard

CS3 is noticeably slow after installing Snow Leopard. Is this a common experience?
What happened was that Photoshop got "choked" up when open big size files (180mb). Also, it seems running much slower when multiple apps were open... ps, ia, InDesign, Word or PPT. It use to work rather smoothly pre snow leopard.
I had to relaunch ps or even restart the system... in the case of opening a big file it worked find after restart the system. Feels like there is a "hole" somewhere.
If anybody had similar issues... what did you do, buy CS4? I update my apps whenever big improvements were made in new versions... really don't like the idea that the OS forces me to get the new versions... especially for package apps like CS.
Thanks

CS3 is not completely compatible with Sno. And, Adobe is not supporting CS3 on Sno. Some have more problems with CS3 than other on CS3. Perhaps, you are one of the unlucky ones. You could try some standard fixes for problems (see below), but you may end up needing to get CS4 or go back to Leopard for CS3 happiness.
1. Get [OnyX and perform any deferred maintenance|http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20070] you think you may need.
2. Repair permissions and disk, the first from your desktop and the second using your install DVD.
3. Try [resetting your PRAM/NVRAM|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379?viewlocale=en_US]. If everything isn't fixed, then follow the [steps here including resetting your SMC if necessary|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1543].
4. Use Font Book to eliminate bad and duplicate fonts.
5. Reinstall (or install for the first time) the .6.1 and .6.2 updates by [downloading and installing the combo updater|http://support.apple.com/kb/DL959].
6. Reinstall 10.6 using you Sno install DVD by installing Sno over Sno using the upgrade method. Test your system after returning to 10.6. If is good there, then you may not want to install the updates, .6.1 and .6.2. But, if you do, then use the combo updater again.

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4. Use Font Book to eliminate bad and duplicate fonts.
5. Reinstall (or install for the first time) the .6.1 and .6.2 updates by downloading and installing the combo updater.
6. Reinstall 10.6 using you Sno install DVD by installing Sno over Sno using the upgrade method. Test your system after returning to 10.6. If is good there, then you may not want to install the updates, .6.1 and .6.2. But, if you do, then use the combo updater again.
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>> SLow Leopard (the old one)
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Let's comparing some more notes!
Here's a few things I believe (I won't say 'I know' - I have no hard proof, and I don't have a budget to investigate getting hard proof )
I had extremely frustrating debugging issues with Xcode 3.1 - most of the time breaking into assembly code instead of showing the source code. No clear pattern: same breakpoint hit the first time shows the source code, second time assembly code. Fiddling with 'back arrows' sometimes got the source code to show up. It got so bad that I often had to revert to command-line debugging using gdb. Also a lot of 'mumble mode' - things just ................ coming to a pizza-colored cursor for no ................ apparent reason.
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CodeWarrior is over for me - I only use it to generate release versions (I still have some PowerPC macs around 'just in case' I need to debug something with CodeWarrior, but it's not been necessary).
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With VMware I get a lot of mumble mode - machine non-responsive for minutes at a time, even with the virtual machine on the internal HD. Parallels has not done that to me (yet).
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