G5 dual/1.8GHZ slow when switching users and starting mail, opening files

I have 20' imac dual cpu G5/1.8ghz/1gig/250gig drive with 10.4.11.
It is much slower than the G5 it replaced. Symptoms include: very slow when switching to another user desk tops, opening up the hard drive for the first time once you get there, opening entourage or mail for the first time; lots of beach balls.
The drive has more than half the space left, we don't have many applications running, our iphoto and itunes libraries are under 20 gig combined. I ran the disk utility and cleaned up permissions. We typically leave the mac on all the time but restart occasionally.
Any ideas?

We'll let you in because you used to have a G5 iMac , but you really should post on the dual page. Anyway, have you cleaned your caches in the browser you use? You can use OnyX to clean all the caches. Make sure you empty the trash in all your user accounts as well. Try resetting the PRAM too.
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