Help: iMac runs Sloooooowwwww now Leopard is installed

Hi all you Apple wizz-kids. Hope you can help me. I bought in 2005 an iMac G5 (the white flat screen one but not with the eyesight built in). When I bought it I upgraded it to 1gb ram so assume that the 'spare slot' that comes with the mac has a 512MB ram chip in it.
I installed Leopard last week - had some issues and some programs crashed so installed again and all programs run fine now - but INCREDIBLY SLOW!!!! So cross with myself now.
My question is - do I need to revert to Tiger? Or can I make Leopard work faster by upping the Ram to a 1GB or 2GB chip to replace the one I have currently in the slot.
I have a 1 x 1.8GHz G5 17" display, 80Gb HD, Bluetooth wireless keyboard & mouse and I love it to pieces and am so gutted it is running so slow. WHat have I done wrong? Leopard stated it would be compatible with my mac..

Hi nosha,
welcome to Discussions!
Yes, Leopard is compatible with your Mac and should run as quickly as Tiger.
Please try the following:
) insert your Leopard DVD
) restart with the C key depressed
) now that your Mac runs booted from the Leopard DVD, follow the normal Mac OS X installation process
) as soon as it appears, do not go on (re)installing Leopard, open Utilities menu and click Disk Utility
) run Disk Utility > First Aid > repair Disk
) run it again and again if it finds problems, until you get a "no problems found" in green letters
) restart your Mac
) open the Disk Utility that's in your Mac's Utilities folder
) run DU > First Aid > Repair Permissions
Does it run faster now?
After this,
) open Software Update in Apple menu
) download and install updates
) Repair Permissions again.
Now after this very basic troubleshooting start, let us know how it goes?

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