Excessive CPU activity when Repairing Permissions & Emptying Trash Securely

I've a new Macbook and, when compared to my humble ibook G4, the CPU nears 100% activity in the monitor and the fan whirrs loudly.
One such occasion included the following -
process name: 'instaldb'
user: _installer
real memory: 147MB
virtual memory: 158MB
Msgs received: 70
Msgs sent: 94
I've restarted and - obviously - repaired permissions, to no avail.
I think this overload issue may also include problems I'm having with Logic 8 audio overload, but am not sure.

while that may be true - it doesn't explain how my 1.33Ghz ibook, on 512Mb RAM had no problem performing these routine tasks.
and i have to say, it is pretty alarming when the fan's on full bore and the Activity monitor's peaking!

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The first and easiest thing I'd try would be the Trash itself.
Go to /Applications /Utilities/Terminal and launch it.
At the prompt, copy and paste this commandsudo rm -rf ~/.TrashPress Return.
You will be asked to enter your admin password. It will be invisible.
Enter it and press Return.
Log out and back in or restart.
Let us know.
-mj

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when the user login screen came up... and it trashed my Adobe CS2/CS3 installs and Parallels.It trashed them? Are you sure it didn't save them in a folder called, "Previous System" on the top level (root level) of your hard drive? Can't you just re-install them?
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