Extremely slow display of imported PDF images

We have been using imported PDF images in FrameMaker for many years now with great success. However, something happened a few weeks ago that now causes several of our machines to take an extremely long time to display PDF images. For example, a 200KB imported PDF image that previously took less than 1 second to render now takes 14 seconds. It is now almost impossible to work with many of our documents, which contains 100+ images.
This has happened on several of our PCs running FrameMaker 8 (via the TechComm suite). These machines have the following software configuration.
FrameMaker 8.0p277
Adobe Acrobat 8.1.3
Windows XP Professional SP3
We have also disabled all plugins, but there is no difference - the problem still persists.
However, there is one machine in our office that is not affected. It has the following configuration.
FrameMaker 8.0p277
Adobe Acrobat 7.1.0
Windows XP Professional SP3
Is it possible that Acrobat is affecting the PDF import? Or is it recent changes to XP? Or something that has been updated in the background?
Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
Steven Teasdale
GE Multilin

In practical terms, you can always toggle the display of graphics off in FM, but that doesn't work for all situations.
A few things to check:
Did you optimize the PDFs when they were created? (You'd still want to avoid downsampling and compression, but optimization still reduces the size.)
Also, a lot of the graphics processing is memory-intensive, so you should be using machines that are loaded up with RAM and have healthy open space.
Finally, if it happens consistently, the machines' anti-virus programs may be screening everything every time each file is opened. So adjust those settings... That's easy to test for too -- just shut it off and try an import.
How heavily are the servers being hit by other applications and users, and how fast is the network? Not being able to serve the files quickly enough is another chokepoint.
Move a book with Bruce Foster's Archive plugin to create a local copy and test with that to see if the problem is actually FM and the local machine, or something outside.....
It may also be worth checking to see if the computers have the lastest graphics card drivers loaded too.
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