Front Row is taking a LOOOONG time to open movie lists.

Hello
I have a Mac Mini Core Duo 1.66 with 512MB RAM.
I have an external hard drive for my video files, and the Mini is connected to my 1920x1080 Sharp LCD TV as a monitor. My movie files are located on the external drive, and I have an alias in my "Movies" folder, per advice from another forum posting.
When I launch Front Row, it takes almost 10 minutes to open my movie list - sometimes front row just freezes. I have perhaps 50 items in folders and sub-folders on my movie list, and they are all located on the external drive. When they were on the local drive, it also took a VERY long time just to open the movie list in Front Row (that's just opening the movie list, not even playing the movies!)
What's going on here? It's unusable as it is - how can I speed things up?
Thanks,
-----------S

I have a mini with an external drive containing a library of movie files and front row is also very slow with that - though in my case around a minute to pull up the list rather than 10.
Part of the problem may be the type of external. In my case, I have an enclosure which supports both Firewire and USB 2.0, and when connected by FW, immediately I select the movies option in front row, the drive is woken and the activity light starts blinking. After it has read the contents of the folder, front row then displays the list with a brief pause as the preview for the first movie in the list appears.
When connected by USB, the drive doesn't start responding for several seconds, and when it does the access light blinks at a much slower rate. That would be expected since USB doesn't have a dedicated controller, so data flow is dependent on how busy the system is with other things. FW on the other hand has a constant data rate due it it's dedicated controller, which means that while it is in theory slower than USB2.0, in practice it is generally faster to use.
Thus, if not already connected by FW, if your drive has that option, connect it that way. Also open the energy saver preference pane and make sure there is no checkmark against 'put hard drive to sleep when possible'.

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