Find extremely slow from Finder menu

In OS 10.3.9, when I try to search for files on our Windows 2000 network, Finder/Find is extremely slow. When searching for a particular file, it can take 10 minutes to return any results. I downloaded "Path Finder" as a test, and it returns all the results within 30 seconds.
Is there something that needs to be done to make Find faster?

It might be worth mentioning over here as well.
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Finder is extremely slow (takes forever to show contents of a mounted DMG).
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iTunes won't launch.
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Go here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/802.11g#802.11g
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802.11n:
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Launch the Activity Monitor application in any of the following ways:
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