Deleting Links Ridiculously Slow – Document Specific

I've got one document that is worse than others in terms of removing links. It is a 52 page 4 color piece that just is a dog. The whole thing exports, saves and prints at the same rate as any other document, but when placing or removing links this thing just grinds. It is a medley of vector eps, raster eps, tiffs and psd. Regardless of what type when removing a link it takes my processor to 100.1% and 3 full minutes in order to remove the link.
I've round tripped the file through INX into INDD and back on multiple occasions and it still dogs out on links. I've resaved every single placed file to be a uniform color space and color profile. The document contains 2 font families in one clean suitcase.
InDesign when balling up on these links still uses just 500 mb of ram and I have plenty of ram to spare during this. It seems to balance back and forth between the cores on my machine evenly while this happens. I have ample hard disk space to spare and I am working with both the file and all placed links existing locally.
I've rebuilt prefs and the slowdown does not occur with the links are missing and I am working with just the proxy previews. This happens at the same rate in all three display settings.
Any guesses? My best guess is that it is the ghost of Claude Garamond coming back to enact revenge on me for my atrocities against type including, but not limited to, baseline shift, horizontal scaling and interchanging his beloved apostrophe with prime marks and inch marks.
I'm on CS4 v6.0.4.578 Mac OS X 10.5.8 on a 2.8ghz Xeon with 4gb 667mhz ram for what that is worth.

If you really want to know, and have spare time for deeeep analysis, or as a hint to other trouble shooters around here
Setup:
Clone your boot volume onto a spare firewire drive, or do a clean install there.
Reboot from the separate disk, unmount the original boot drive.
Install the optional Apple developer tools from the second DVD.
If you chose a clean install, also install a demo InDesign.
Actual test:
Within /DeveloperApplications, there is a neat utility called "Instruments".
Choose the "File Activity" template instruments document.
Launche Executable or attach to running InDesign.
Record
Do your thing.
Stop recording.
Click thru the instruments such as "Directory I/O", identify the major activity.
Position the triangle indicator of the top timeline accordingly, then clip the inspection range.
In the bottom of instruments window, choose the symbol with the stylized 4 cell table.
See the executed operations, and the actual file path arguments, to get an impression of the paths used. Reorder by path. Does anything stand out?
Just play around with instruments, it has plenty more options.
If you like this utility and can afford the extra disk space requirements of development tools, install them on your regular boot volume.
Similar information is also available from /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor (use the "Sample Process" tab), but that sample will not tell the actual path arguments.
Dirk

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Resolution History
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### Complete Problem Description ###
A test file is being used to do inserts into a schemaless XML DB. The file is inserted and then links are made to 4
different collection folders under /public. The inserts are pretty slow (about
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is going on except that I suspect somehow a cartesian product is the result of
the query on Oracle.
### SQLXML, XQUERY, PL/SQL syntax used ###
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CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE "XDB"."RESOURCEARRAY" AS VARRAY(500) OF VARCHAR2(256);
PROCEDURE AddOrReplaceResource(
resourceUri VARCHAR2,
resourceContents SYS.XMLTYPE,
public_collections in ResourceArray
) AS
b BOOLEAN;
privateResourceUri path_view.path%TYPE;
resource_exists EXCEPTION;
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BEGIN
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Hi Arnold,
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Please use Sun JDK 1.5 java to perform the test case.Right now I have -
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/usr/bin/java
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Hello, fellow RoboHelpers!
I have a quick question that I am hoping someone can answer
for me. :-)
I am using RoboHelp X5 and use Microsoft HTML Help (.CHM) as
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topics, so when a user clicks the link, they will be prompted to
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The following are the steps I use to do this:
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Originally posted by:
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document. Still, clicking "Open" will not open the Word document in
Microsoft Word. When I press Open, the box simply disappears and
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2007 is not compatible with RoboHelpX5, so perhaps that is why the
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Originally posted by:
Peter Grainge
The opening of Word documents is described on my site under
Snippets.
I took a look at your site, which says:
Opening a Word document
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COMPILED CHM HELP - Rick advises that you can use an HTML
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5. I click Finish, and the button is created.
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