Everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) is slowing down...

Hey everyone,
So I've had my G4 iBook for about a year and a half now and everything is slowing down. And I mean, EVERYTHING! When I click an icon on the dock, it takes almost two full seconds before it starts to bounce and load up. When I'm loading a web page and then open a new application, I get the spinning color wheel for about 15-30 seconds before something responds.
Anytime I seem to give it multiple, simple tasks, it starts to freeze up and give the spinning wheel for a bit before everything starts responding again.
I have already wiped the drive and tried reinstalling Tiger. And I have no third party RAM in there. I've reset the PRAM as well.
My optical drive also makes very loud noises, and appears to be working although that seems slow, too. (Maybe it's having trouble reading discs?) For example, when I was coping some files from CD to my hard drive, copying went at a rate at about 1 MB per second, which seems much slower to me than usual. And after I wiped the drive, it took about 7 hrs. to reinstall Tiger completely off the DVD. Is that normal?
Could this be the processor or motherboard? This is my second iBook (the first was replaced by Apple after about 6 major repairs to the motherboard in two years.) I love my iBook and I don't think I'm INCREDIBLY hard on it, so I don't know why I'd be having these kind of problems... any ideas?
Thanks,
Steve

Hi Doug,
I have 768 MB of RAM. And weird thing, I did try booting off the hardware test disc, and it rejected it, saying it wasn't compatible... but it is the iBook Hardware Test disc, the one that came with the computer... any ideas?
Thanks,
Steve

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