CS4 soooooo slow!

I have just upgraded to CS4 (from CS3) and also bought new workstations. The new computer is an HP Z800 dual quad core, with 6 GB RAM, Nvidia FX4800 graphics card running Vista Business 64 bit. I am currently trying to work on and render a 30" tvc created in CS3 (on an older HP).
This particular project used to take 14 minutes to render (without multi processing turned on) on the old machine which was 32 bit with 3 GB RAM running Windows XP Professional. I am now attempting to render the same project on the new system (I've given up on multiprocessing for now) and the same project takes at least 2.5 hours to render (if I'm lucky enough to get througt it - the program usually hangs indefinitelyor crashes) ! We're about to tear our hair out.
I've re-installed CS3 onto the new HP Workstation system and it works as it used to. So what is going on with CS4? EVERYTHING about it is sooo slow. Even saving a project takes 15 seconds or so, whereas before I'd miss it if I blinked.
I've done all the updates, read a lot of the forums and read me's, but to no avail. In fact I have 2 suites now running this new configuration and both suites are experiencing the identical problems. Productivity is grindingly slow and staff losing patience.
Before I go and spend a lot more money on a lot of RAM does anyone know why such a great product has suddenly tuned into a dog?
Thanks, Richard

HI TODD & CHRIS, THANKS FOR THE INFO.
I HAVE PINCHED 6GB FROM THE OTHER MACHINE AND NOW HAVE 12 GB INSTALLED INTO 1 MACHINE. IT''S STARTING TO WARM UP...
2 THINGS I'VE NOTICED THAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND:
1. WATCHING THE MEMORY ALLOCATION IN THE TASK MANAGER WHILST CS4 IS DOING A RAM PREVIEW WITH SAY 4 PROCESSORS, THE RAM USED BY EACH PROCESSOR GROWS. THE TOP ONE IN THE LIST ALWAYS HAS USES THE MOST RAM AND THEN THE OTHERS LISTED BELOW ARE ABOUT THE SAME. THEY START OUT AT ABOUT 300,000KB EACH AND 'WIND UP' TO ROUGHLY WHAT I ALLOCATED, BUT THIS PROCESS TAKES AT LEAST HALF THE COMPOSITION TO GET THERE...AT WHICH TIME IT SLOWS RIGHT DOWN AGAIN.
THE SAME HAPPENS WHEN RENDERING. AS I TYPE I AM WATCHING 4 PROCESSORS RENDERING WITH 860,000KB ASSIGNED TO EACH, EVEN THOUGH I SET THE AMOUNTS TO 2.8GB IN THE MULTI PROCESSOR SETTINGS. THE RAM ALLOCATION IS SLOWLY GROWING FOR EACH, BUT THE WHOLE THING IS SO SLOW COMPARED TO CS3.
2. WHEN I HAVE MULTIPROCESSING TURNED OFF, THE MAXIMUM RAM ALLOCATED TO AE IS 2.4GB - EVEN THOUGH THERE'S 12GB AVAILABLE. CAN THIS BE CHANGED?
ANY THOUGHTS?
REGARDS
RICHARD

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InDesign CS 4 (version 6.0.6) runs intermittently slow. It will often hang up for a few seconds during pretty much any operation (typing, scrolling, zooming, selecting -- type or objects, etc.). Restarting InDesign and the computer has no effect. Any ideas?
It's running on an iMac, Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz, OSX 10.6.8.

Pretty much all files, as far as I know. This is a computer at an office I work at. My own version of ID CS4 at home doesn't have this problem. Since posting, I saw a number of other postings about similar problems. I have yet to do any of general maintenance, such as repairing permissions or running disk 1st aid. Is that a first step? Is there some kind of cache in ID that can be cleared?

Dreamweaver CS4 dead slow on windows 7 after inserting some png images, I can't scroll. Why?

I am using Dreamweaver CS4 on windows 7, I put some png images in table and one 900px width image on background, now I cannot scroll the page, I can work smoothly on code view, but really dead slow in design view, Why? I am using Toshoba Tecra laptop - Core 2 Duo 1.8GHz with 2.5GB RAM.
Is it related to cache? Is it need any special settings for using too many images? Please help.

Thanks dear, The image has 1.08MB, but I find out the problem - I have 3 transparent images(less than 1kb) as table backgrounds, When I removed those images it works smoothly, I can scroll as well. But to keep the design how can I use transparent image without slowdown. The images are in PNG-24 format and i used those through CSS.
Thanks for your help.

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