FCP keeps freezing when I go back and forth from other applications

OK, so first when I called in to procare they narrowed it down to possibly being a corrupt file because I share this editing station and user desktop with another editor, he doesn't have the same problems, and we reinstalled the Operating system and FCP studio to make sure. My project has alot more scripted photoshop sequences, nested sequences and more Motion projects than his too, so they suggested that I copy and paste all of my sequences and bins from the frozen project into a brand new one, and cut out some of the old unused sequences. So I did and it did help things a little bit but still. even when I just go from safari and back to FCP I still get the spinning ball, and it still takes about a minute or so for the spinning ball to stop if I make changes to just a simple title in Motion that is also up in FCP. I'm afraid if I add any more graphics to this newly copied project it may start freezing like the other one did. Any suggestions on how to speed things up, I'd really appreciate it! Thanks, jen
Power Mac G5 Quad   Mac OS X (10.4.10)   Memory:6.5 GB, CPU Speed:2.5 GHz, FCP 6.0.1

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Old comedians joke: Doc it hurts when I move my arm like this...then don't move your arm like that
Okay now that I have that off my chest, there are a number of things we could all look at to trouble shoot this problem. No doubt others will chime in, but my first thought is to look at how big your photoshop files might be. Check out this link:
http://www.dc.umich.edu/groundworks/Docs/video/importStillsFCPiMovie.pdf
You also noted you have a lot of nested sequences. Maybe you could export those nested sequences as QT movies to free up some memory. Also are all your sequences open at the same time? This eats up memory as well.
Just a couple of areas to get you started.

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